A Summary of Industrial Accidents in USAEC Facilities; TID-5360 (Suppl.3)(Revised)
Oak Ridge, TN: United States Atomic Energy Commission, Technical Information Service, 1961. Reproduced from the best available copy --believed contemporaneous with initial publication. Wraps. iv, 35, [1] pages. Footnotes. 7 Charts. Cover has some wear and soiling. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Date stamped on front cover. Short narrative descriptions of incidents involving radioactive materials have been separated from the total accident experience, because of their special interest to the atomic energy industry. In some instances, the 1959-60 accidents have been added to the tables previously published in which were compiled data beginning in 1945. A new table of inadvertent criticality situations is included in this supplement through the courtesy of Mr. William Stratton of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Also included in this supplement is a tabulation of exposure records at values from zero to 15 rems, which reflects a measure of the control of radiation in the work places in Commission operations. The contents include: Serious Accidents, 1959-1960; AEC Industrial Injury Frequency Rates, Criticality Accidents, Radiation Exposure, A Summary of Accidents Involving Radioactive Materials in AEC Activities, 1959-1960, and A Summary of Accidents involving Fatalities in AEC Activities, 1959-1960. A serious accident was defined as an accident required to be reported immediately to Commission Headquarters, and included any of the following: (a) fatalities; (b) government property damage of $5,000 or more; (c) an external radiation exposure greater than 15 rems received over a short period of time; and (d) other injury or industrial illness, no matter how slight, of five or more persons in one accident, and other defined accidents. (AEC Manual Chapters 0502-04 and 0523-052 gave full definitions of immediately reportable accidents.). Condition: Good.
Keywords: Atomic Energy, Nuclear Accidents, Radiation Accidents, Industrial Accidents, Fatal Accidents, Lost Time Injuries, Radiation Injuries, Occupational Safety, William Stratton
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