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(Site Profile/Docket Number 340)

Location: Washington, Pennsylvania

Technical Documents

If the energy employee’s personal radiation information is incomplete, NIOSH will use other sources to estimate the radiation dose. This may involve using technical documents called Site Profiles, Technical Basis Documents, and Technical Information Bulletins.

NIOSH developed the Jessop Steel Co. technical documents below to help complete dose reconstructions.

Site Profile

  • Site Profile for Atomic Weapons Employers that Worked Uranium Metals [944 KB (55 pages)]
    Previously titled “Site Profile for Atomic Weapons Employers that Worked Uranium and Thorium Metals”
    Revised June 17, 2011

    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.

    Revision Includes: Incorporates review comments. Added external beta dose from surface contamination. Expanded discussion in section 3.3.1. Additional editorial changes and typographical error corrections.

    Jessop Steel Co. Appendix:

Advisory Board and NIOSH Discussions on Jessop Steel Co. Documents

The Jessop Steel Co. discussion papers listed below are working documents prepared by NIOSH or its contractor for use in discussions with the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health or its Working Groups or Subcommittees. Draft, preliminary, interim, and white paper documents are not final NIOSH or Advisory Board (or their technical support and review contractors) positions unless specifically marked as such. These documents represent preliminary positions taken on technical issues prepared by NIOSH or its contractor.

The discussion papers have been reviewed to identify and redact any information that is protected by the Privacy Act 5 USC §552a and has been cleared for distribution.

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.

NIOSH developed the PER and PEP documents below as relevant new information became available. You can find discussion papers on these documents on this page also.

  • PER 69: Jessop Steel Company Program Evaluation Report, Rev. 0 [66 KB (2 pages)]
    April 5, 2016

    Document Number: DCAS-PER-069

    About this Document: Determines the effect of the revision to Appendix BL of Battelle-TBD-6000 (Jessop) on previously completed claims.

    Summary: A new dose estimate was performed for each of the 8 affected claims using revision 1 of the Appendix, as well as all other applicable approved dose reconstruction methods. The resulting probability of causation (POC) was below 45% for all 8 claims. NIOSH will provide the Department of Labor with the list of all claims evaluated under this PER. Since none would now result in a POC greater than 50%, NIOSH will not request the return of any of the claims.

Public Comments on Jessop Steel Co. Documents

How to Submit Comments

Comments on Jessop Steel Co. documents can be submitted to the NIOSH Docket Officer electronically by e-mail at nioshdocket@cdc.gov or printed comments can be mailed to NIOSH Docket Office, Robert A. Taft Laboratories, MS-C34, 1090 Tusculum Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45226. Please include the Site Profile/Docket Number (340) on all comments.

Comments Received

  • We have not received comments specific to the Jessop Steel Co. appendix.

Document Archive for Jessop Steel Co.

  • Site Profiles for Atomic Weapons Employers that Worked Uranium and Thorium Metals, Appendix BL – Jessop Steel Co.
    Now called “Site Profile for Atomic Weapons Employers that Worked Uranium Metals”

    • Revision 0 [107 KB (10 pages)]
      Approved May 25, 2007

      Appendix Includes: Describes Jessop Steel Company’s uranium-related work and provides site-specific guidance for estimating radiation exposure for former workers when records are incomplete.

  • Site Profiles for Atomic Weapons Employers that Worked Uranium and Thorium Metals
    Now called “Site Profile for Atomic Weapons Employers that Worked Uranium Metals”

    • Revision F0
      December 13, 2006

      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.