Conda, Idaho — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has again honored employees who work at the J.R. Simplot Co.’s Conda pump station near Soda Springs, Idaho, for continued participation in a safety program that earned them “star” status from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The pump station moves phosphate slurry from Simplot’s Smoky Canyon Mine near the Idaho/Wyoming border to Simplot’s fertilizer complex west of Pocatello – a distance of nearly 90 miles. The station is about 27 miles from the mine and about 60 miles from the Don Plant. The Conda station includes a machine shop, welding shop, four 1,200 horsepower driven pumps, offices and a control room to monitor operations. It was first approved as a “star” site in 1996 and has maintained that status since.
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