Copper smelting and refining, primary · Utah

Kennecott Refinery

South Jordan, UT · ~140 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kennecott Refinery runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Copper smelting and refining, primary workplace, earning a grade B.

Kennecott Refinery: 1.8 TCR = 53% of Copper smelting and refining, primary BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kennecott Refinery safety composite

Kennecott Refinery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2023→2024

Kennecott Refinery injury rate improved

Kennecott Refinery's TCR fell 1.4 from 2.4 in 2023 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.4 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331410 · South Jordan, UT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 53% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK P77
  • PHOTO ATI Millersburg Oper…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ATI Millersburg Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kennecott Refinery in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Kennecott Refinery averages 1.8 TCR (53% of the Copper smelting and refining, primary BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Kennecott Refinery TCR series: 2023=2.4 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Kennecott Refinery falls in its industry

57 Copper smelting and refining, establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kennecott Refinery (140 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kennecott Refinery
Kennecott Refinery (140 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Kennecott Refinery has more employees than the Copper smelting and refining, primary median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 1.1 0.5 0 2 0
2023 2.4 0.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331410 · UT · South Jordan

57 Copper smelting and refining, primary employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,861 rated employers in Utah with headcount on file · 60 employers in South Jordan, UT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR ATI Millersburg Operations 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WACKER Polysilicon North America 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR HEM Fombell 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Zinc Millington Plant 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cookie Tree 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Innophos LLC 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Setpoint Systems 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10646 Park City (relo) 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merit Medical 1,954 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ultradent Dental Manufacturing B1 925 FTE
CITY-NEAR Intermountain Homecare & Hospice 842 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPI - Building 1 716 FTE
NAT-TCR Carter Lumber 423 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LaCygne Energy Center 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Plains Otter Tail LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Farley Center 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE CA-Saddleback S/C 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bakersfield Rehabilitation Hospital, LLC 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingston Residence of Sylvania 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Galasso Materials LLC. 140 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.