CHAPTER lll, SECTION 4
Experience figures shown below for the Contractor’s portion of Operation CASTLE are
based on the American Standards Association

Z-16.1 code, titled “Method of Compiling In-

dustrial Injury Rates,” and conform to applicable AEC bulletins.

1,442
6,524,954
33
5.06
2,180

Average number of Employees
Total Man hours Worked
Number of Lost Time Injuries

Frequency Rate

Total Days Lost
Severity Rate

33

Number of Motor Vehicle Accidents

Direct Cost

11

Number of Property Damage Accidents

$

8
15

Number of Fires

673.50

2,469.00
3,692.00

Of the 33 lost time accidents reported, there

plans as a responsibility of TU 7, under the
direction of the Military during test periods and

days lost time. All were caused primarily by

ational periods. In compliance with CJTF instructions and through close liaison with the
Rad-Safe group, the Safety Departmentassisted

were four resulting in permanent partial disability, which accounted for a total of 1,600
carelessness in unusual circumstances on the

part of the employee concerned.

The most

serious of these, involving a lost time charge

of 1,000 days, resulted in the partial amputation of three fingers on an employee’s left hand.

In other documented cases, there were no indus-

trial fatalities and no cases of permanent, partial
or total disability. A comparison with other SFO
Contractors’ injury experience is shown in Figure 3-6.

Two property damage accidents amounting

to $485.00 and $890.00 respectively, resulted

when a Tournapull with defective brakes struck
the side of a building while making a turn, and
when an excessive dynamite charge threw rock
and debris which damaged a building.
The major fire losses were the result of

two fires with total incurred loss of $3,327.00.

In matters of safety, fire protection, and

health, extensive liaison with AEC and Task
Group officials was necessary in coordination
of test site activities with Holmes & Narver

operations. Representative of the operations so

under an AEC representative during non-oper-

in establishing and activating routines for the

control of H&N employee movement into forward areas, and for local evacuation should
exposure so justify, and aided coordination of
H&N operations involving radiological safety.
During the test period, an attempt was made

to maintain by the Rad-Safe office up-to-date
records of all H&N employees with accumulated
exposures in excess of 2.5r. This information
was kept immediately available to assist supervision in the efficient utilization of personnel

in recovery, decontamination and other supporting operations.

FIRE PROTECTION AND PREVENTION
Through

the

period,

sufficient

fire

a minimum of one unit at each camp. At the peak

of the Operations, AEC-owned and Contractoroperated apparatus consisted of:

coordinated were Dewar or RTD movements,

Two Chevrolets with 500 GMP Center
Mount Pump

dling of cylinders containing highly corrosive
and poisonous materials, and dissemination of

One Ford with 500 GPM Center Mount
Pump

rocket and explosives operations, special haninformation relating to emergency signals.

All

war-time unexploded missiles and projectiles
found were reported to the Safety Department
for removal and disposal. Whenever available,

the cooperation of the Military disposal unit
was secured for such operations.
RAD-SAFE
Rad-Safe indoctrination was given all new
arrivals at Jobsite in an initial safety orientation talk. Written information was also furnished personnel at the point of hire and in
safety lectures presented at the Jobsite. Radiological problems were set up in the Operations
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ap-

paratus was made available by the AEC and
through loan from Military sources to provide

One Maxim with 750 GPM Center
Mount Pump

On loan from the military were:
One Chevrolet with 100 GPM Fron Mount
Pump
One GMC with 500 GPM Front Mount
Pump

One LaFrance with a Bean High Pressure
Center Mount Pump
One International with Bean High Pressure
Center Mount Pump

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