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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Program Update

Stuart Hinnefeld

Director

NIOSH Division of Compensation Analysis and Support

Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health 112th meeting

Idaho Falls, Idaho

August 9-10, 2016
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News items

– Joint Outreach Task Group (JOTG) meetings – Idaho Falls and Pocatello in June 2016

– Upcoming JOTG meeting in Burlington and Ames, Iowa 

September 2016

– Dose reconstruction (DR) and Special Exposure Cohort 

workshop, Cincinnati in September

– Advocates Meeting with Department of Energy and Department 

of Labor (DOL) in March

– Personnel actions

– Electronic records
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Cases as of July 31, 2016

45,673 sent to NIOSH from DOL

• 1,220 cases at NIOSH for DR

• 760 cases administratively closed

Total cases returned to DOL = 43,693
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Cases returned to DOL

38,795 submitted with DR

• 1,468 pulled from DR by DOL

• 3,430 cases pulled for SEC
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Active cases

Of the 1,220 at NIOSH for DR:

• 338 in DR process

• 204 initial draft DR reports with claimants

• 678 cases in DR development
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Probability of Causation (PoC) 

Summary

Of the 38,795 DRs send back to NIOSH for final 

adjudication:

• 10,892 had PoC ≥ 50%

• 27,903 had PoC < 50%
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Summary of first 20,000 DRs

19,566 claims at DOL

• 765 pulled for DOL issues 

• 2,065 pulled for SEC 

• 16,736 submitted with DR

401 claims at NIOSH 

• 357 administratively closed 

• 14 DRs with claimants (2 initial; 12 DOL returns) 

• 30 DRs in process (1 initial; 29 DOL returns) 

33 claim numbers deleted
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SEC Petition summary

Received 234

4 in the NIOSH qualification process

A total of 142 have qualified for evaluation

• NIOSH has 1 in the evaluation process

• We completed 141 NIOSH ERs completed

• 14 ERs are with the Advisory Board

88 didn’t qualify for evaluation 
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Petitions in Qualification process

SEC00228 Y-12 Plant

• All machinists in a number of bldgs.

• Time period 1/01/1962 through 12/31/1991

SEC00231 Pinellas Plant

• All employees

• Time period 1/01/1956 through 12/22/1997
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Petitions in Qualification process 

(cont.)

SEC00232 Carborundum

• All Laborers

• June 1943 through September, 1943 and January 1, 1959 

through December 31, 1967

SEC00233 Pinellas Plant

• Administrative employees including management and 

support personnel

• Time period 1/01/1960 through 12/31/1990
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Petitions under evaluation

SEC00234 Santa Susanna Field Lab (SSFL) 

• All Employees

• January 1, 1965 through December 31, 1988

NOTE: This is an 83.14 petition. 

The end date for the infeasibility has not been fully 

determined.
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In Board review

Awaiting initial Board action:

• SEC-219, Idaho National Laboratory

• SEC-223, Carborundum

• SEC-225, Blockson Chemical residual period

• SEC-230, Bliss and Laughlin (Presented to Advisory Board 

this meeting)
Sites with remaining evaluation periods awaiting action

Fernald 

(SEC-0046)

1984-1989 Sandia National Laboratories -

Albuquerque 

(SEC-0188)

1995-2011

Los Alamos National 

Laboratory 

(SEC-0109)

1996-2005 Santa Susana Field Laboratory 

(SEC-0093)

1965

Rocky Flats Plant

(SEC-0192)

1984-1989 Savannah River Site (SEC-0103) 1973-2007

Grand Junction Facilities

(SEC-0175)

1986-2010 Westinghouse

(SEC-0217)

1958-2011

Idaho National Laboratory

(SEC00219)

1949-1970 ANL-West 

(SEC-0224)

1958 - 1979

In Board review
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Potential SEC petitions

Sandia National Laboratories – Albuquerque (1945-48)

Dayton Project Monsanto (modify based on change in 

facility designation)

• Changed to a Department of Energy facility

• Add the 9-month period when operations were being 

shifted from “The Dayton Project” to Mound