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Kennecott Utah Copper Corp. Smelter and Refinery

Parent: Kennecott Utah Copper, LLC · EPA RMP facility · Magna, UT

Kennecott Utah Copper Corp. Smelter and Refinery is regulated under the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (§112(r)) because it stores or uses hazardous chemicals above threshold quantities. It has 1 reportable chemical accident(s) on record, causing 0 death(s) and 10 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
2023-05-03Gas release0100Maintenance, Process design failure

About this data

The EPA Risk Management Program (Clean Air Act §112(r)) requires facilities with large quantities of hazardous chemicals to file Risk Management Plans, including a 5-year accident history. EPA keeps this statutorily-public data available only via FOIA / reading rooms; this page mirrors the FOIA'd dataset (institution-level only — no personal contact information).

Source: EPA RMP (FOIA mirror via the Data Liberation Project). License: CC0 1.0.