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Site Profile
- Site Profile for Atomic Weapons Employers that Worked Uranium and Thorium Metals
(Approved December 13, 2006)
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About this Document: This document provides an exposure matrix for workers at AWE facilities that performed metal-working operations with uranium metal. Over 110 facilities performed these operations, and this document intends to provide guidance for dose reconstruction at any of these facilities. The main body of this document, in Sections 2-6, includes general discussions of operations and exposure conditions at these facilities. Following the main body of this document is a collection of appendices, with one appendix for each AWE site that performed metal-working operations. Each appendix contains site-specific information that can be used for dose reconstruction. For those sites where this information is insufficient or totally lacking, the dose reconstructor must use information in the main body of the Site Profile.
Appendices:
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Program Evaluation Reports (PERs) and Program Evaluation Plans (PEPs)
NIOSH is committed to applying the best available science in dose reconstructions. In keeping with this commitment, completed cases with probabilities of causation less than 50% are reviewed as relevant new information becomes available. The results of these reviews are described in a Program Evaluation Report (PER). The PER details the effect, if any, of the new information on the completed dose reconstruction. If it appears that the new information may result in an increase in dose for a completed dose reconstruction with a probability of causation of less than 50%, NIOSH is committed to working with the Department of Labor to reopen and rework the dose reconstruction, as appropriate. A Program Evaluation Plan (PEP) describes plans for evaluating specific program details or issues.
At the current time, no PERs or PEPs specific to Dow Chemical Company have been developed. However, we have developed PERs and PEPs that pertain to multiple sites. To view all PERs and PEPs that have been developed, please refer to the Program Evaluation Reports (PERs) and Program Evaluation Plans (PEPs) page.
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Worker Outreach Activities
Based on a recommendation from the Advisory Board to provide workers and site experts with opportunities to participate in developing the technical documents used in dose reconstruction, NIOSH established a Worker Outreach Program.
At Worker Outreach Meetings, current and former DOE and AWE employees have opportunities to obtain information about Site Profiles, Technical Basis Documents, and Technical Information Bulletins, and to provide information for consideration and possible use in dose reconstruction. This process is valuable to ensure that the technical documents used in dose reconstruction contain correct and useful information.
Below are the Worker Outreach Activities for Dow Chemical Company:
At the current time, worker outreach activities have not been scheduled.
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Comments on Dow Chemical Company Documents
How to Submit Comments
Comments on Dow Chemical Company documents can be submitted
to the NIOSH Docket Officer electronically by e-mail at
NIOCINDOCKET@cdc.gov
or printed comments can be mailed to NIOSH Docket Office,
Robert A. Taft Laboratories, MS-C34, 4676 Columbia Parkway,
Cincinnati, OH 45226. Please include the Site Profile
Number (113) on all comments.
Comments Received
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Documents Related to Dow Chemical Company
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Special Exposure Cohort Petition Information for Dow Chemical Company
- Class Added to the SEC
Atomic Weapons Employer (AWE) employees who were monitored or should have been monitored for exposure to thorium radionuclides while working at the Dow Chemical Company site in Madison, Illinois for a number of work days aggregating at least 250 work days from January 1, 1957 through December 31, 1960, or in combination with work days within the parameters established for one or more other classes of employees in the Special Exposure Cohort.
- Petition Information
Location: Madison, Illinois
Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All Atomic Weapons Employer employees who were monitored, or should have been monitored, for exposure to
ionizing radiation while working for a number of work days aggregating at least 250 work days, either solely under this employment or in combination with work days within the parameters established for one or more other classes of employees in the Special Exposure Cohort
Period of Employment: January 1, 1957 through December 21, 1960
- Federal Register Notice Announcing that Dow Chemical Company SEC Petition has met the Minimum Qualifications for Review and Evaluation
December 14, 2006
PDF 44 KB (1 page)
- Copy of the Petition Received
Dow Chemical Company Petition
PDF 4.0 MB (124 pages)
Attachments to the petition:
- SEC Petition Evaluation Report
Dow Chemical Company SEC Petition Evaluation Report
PDF 127 KB (18 pages)
Addendum 1 to Dow Madison SEC Evaluation Report
PDF 137 KB (25 pages)
Addendum 2 to Dow Madison SEC Evaluation Report
PDF 147 KB (34 pages)
- Petition Discussed by the Advisory Board
An update of the Dow Chemical Company SEC petition was discussed on February 8, 2007, during an Advisory Board meeting.
The Advisory Board discussed the petition on May 3, 2007, during its regular meeting.
The petition was discussed by the Advisory Board on
January 10, 2008, during its regular meeting.
The petition was discussed by the Advisory Board on
June 25, 2008, during its regular meeting.
- Advisory Board Recommendation on SEC Petition
Advisory Board Recommendation on the Dow SEC Petition
PDF 471 KB (2 pages)
- HHS Letter to Congress Regarding the SEC Petition
HHS letter to Congress Regarding the SEC Petition
PDF 686 KB (6 pages)
- Federal Register Notice: Designation of a Class of Employees
for Addition to the Special Exposure Cohort
Designation of a Class of Employees from Dow Chemical Company
for Addition to the Special Exposure Cohort
PDF 63 KB (2 pages)
- HHS Designation of Additional Members to the SEC
HHS Designation of Additional Members to the SEC
PDF 461 KB (4 pages)
- Effective Date for the SEC Class
July 22, 2007
- Federal Register Notice: Final Effect of Designation of a Class of Employees for Addition to the Special Exposure Cohort
August 7, 2007
PDF 46 KB (1 page)
- Letter to DOL Regarding the Addition of a New Class of Employees to the SEC
July 30, 2007
PDF 25 KB (1 page)
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Page last updated: October 21, 2009
Page last reviewed: June 9, 2009
Content Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
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