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1.

There were no losses from Laboratory fires during thie report period.

2.

A near serious accident occurred on November 27 when

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By

CMR-4, received first and second degree burns to the left side of his face and
both arms when a hydrogen-air mixture ignited unexpectedly.

; was using

the Y-Building mass spectrometer to analyze Hp - Tg mixtures.

Previously a

practice run not involving T, but using Ha in order to check the procedure was
held.

On the day of the accident, a successful run had been completed and the

second run was nearly completed.

The flash is believed to have occurred when

the He air mixtures reached various ignition points within the spectrometer.
Fire was limited to two pages of a notebook which was lying on the desk of the
spectrometer.
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MotorVehicle Accidents;

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gan. } to Dec, 1, 1954

Miles Driven

Number of Accidents
Rate (Accidents per 100,000 Miles)

Total Cost
Accident Cost per 100,000 Miles

2953

1,541,032

1,732,599

$3,912.56
$ §252.00

$1,596.00
$
92.00

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There were four motor vehicle accidents involving Latoratory personnel
during this report period.

Two were backing accidents and the other two oc-

curred when parked vehicles rolled driverless into fixed object

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General Remarks:
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tablishing rules for the machining of zirconium.

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2. The Sefety Office, on dsupaksticn pergeaging,thechante,onefeial
respiration demonstrations to J-Division's electronics personnel who will be involved with test operations.
3.

H-3 and AEC Industrial Waste Section are currently vorking out the

safe disposal of cyanide solutions.

Twenty-five gallons of potassium cyanide

solution from the Sigma plating laboratory were delivered to the AH Waste

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