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Show Mining Operation Wins Safety Award Employees of two United Steel operations in Utah were honored honor-ed for "outstanding achievements in industrial safety" this week by the Utah Industrial Commission. Commis-sion. A special award was presented present-ed to the employees of the Utah Ore Operations at Cedar City for operating 3,157,668 man-hours without a disabling injury from May 22, 1959 through January 31, 19G5. Presentation of the award was made by Carlyle F. Gronning of Salt Lake City, Chairman of the Industrial Commission, in a brief ceremony at the mine Wednesday. Wednes-day. The Kelgley Quarry, near Pay-son, Pay-son, was given a safety award by the Commission for operating 642.579 man-hours without a disabling dis-abling Injury from August 11, 1958 until January 31, 1905. Mr. Gronning presented the award to the employees of Kelgley Quarry Thursday afternoon. The safety records at both the Utah Ore Operations and the Kelgley Quarry continue unbroken. unbrok-en. At the end of March the Utah Ore Operations had worked 2,141 days and the Keigley Quarry Quar-ry had worked 2,425 days without with-out a disabling Injury. In the breif presentation ceremony cere-mony at Desert Mound Mine last week, Mr. Gronning and Norman Heaton, Superintendent at the mine, paid tribute to the individual individ-ual workmen as "the men who made the outstanding safety record rec-ord a reality." Mr. Gronning, who was recently recent-ly named chairman of the Industrial In-dustrial Commission, carne here from Salt Lake City to present the award with John Holmes of Murray, a member of the Industrial Indus-trial Commission. The safety program at the Utah Ore Operations is improved by a Joint Labor-Management Safety Committee comprised of Kenneth Topham, Chairman; George Corry, Kenneth Berry, Wayne Mosdell, Chester Munford, Edward Hahne and Al Jensen, Secretary. Utah Ore Operations received a similar award from the Industrial i Commission in 1963 and the award given last week recognizes recog-nizes a continuation of that rec- ord. In addition, the operations here received Awards of Mo.it and Awards of Commendation from the National Safety Council Coun-cil in 1960, 1962, 1963 and 1964. In 1961 the operations was awarded the Sentinels of Safety trophy by the U. S. Bureau of Mines and the Explosives Engineer Engi-neer magazine a the safest open op-en pit mine in the United States. |
