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From: downwinders at yahoogroups.com [mailto:downwinders at yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Vina Colley
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 4:32 PM
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Subject: [downwinders] sick workers

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Report blames plant for workers' illnesses
Independent auditor backs claims of sick employees that they weren't
protected from radiation.
By Tom Beyerlein

Staff Writer

Friday, July 13, 2007

An independent auditor in a report released Thursday said the nuclear Feed
Materials Production Center at Fernald had a "failed and deficient worker
protection program" during its 38-year history, and questioned the
government's ability to properly screen cancer-stricken former workers who
have applied for federal compensation.

The report by S. Cohen & Associates of Vienna, Va., supports a petition by
sick Fernald workers seeking special status that would greatly reduce their
burden for proving their cancers were caused by on-the-job radiation
exposures.

It clashes with the opinion of the National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health, which said it has enough plant and worker records to
scientifically reconstruct claimants' career exposures to radiation and
determine whether the exposure was sufficient to cause cancer.

Cohen disagreed, saying: "Dose reconstruction for most, if not all, workers
(including nonproduction workers) would pose a myriad of challenges along
with questionable results. (Historical) documents consistently characterize
a facility that was deficient in the most basic engineering designs,
radiological control practices and worker monitoring programs."

The advisory board for the Energy Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation Program ultimately will decide whether to grant the special
status to sick Fernald workers.

NIOSH spokeswoman Amanda Harney said NIOSH, Cohen and the advisory board
will begin discussing the issue in August.

The former Fernald uranium refinery site, in Hamilton County's Crosby Twp.,
18 miles northwest of Cincinnati, now is home to a 1,050-acre wildlife
habitat.

Vina Colley

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