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 Page 3-18 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