334 RADIOLOGICAL CLEANUP OF ENEWETAK ATOLL uN KICKAPOO HUSTEAD LONE PALM TREE os $ FIGURE 7-6. AOMON SOIL EXCISION AREAS. Kickapoo GZ area which consistently showed over 40 pCi/g. The area was cleaned with hand tools and then washed repeatedly. While some low-leve| hot spots remained, the area met the averagelevel for residential use.¢ Approximately 5,503 cubic yards were removed from the Kickapoo area, 3,300 from the Yuma area, and 1,800 from the Hustead area, fora total of 10,603 cubic yards of soil removed from the island. Thesoil contained an estimated 1.07 curies of transuranic material.5 During the final cleanup of Aomon, thethird fatality of the project occurred. Sergeant Donald E. Moody, of Company B, USAE, wasworking on Aomon as Noncommissioned Officer in Charge of operations. On |4 August 1978, he and his men were attempting to jump-start one of the 20ton dump trucks using a D8 bulldozer which had been dispatched from the Lojwa motor pool. While directing the alignment of the bulldozer, SGT Moodywashit by the dozer’s blade and pinned against the truck bed. He sustained severe injuries to the chest, neck and head. Major Paul Sterner, USAF,the Lojwa doctor, arrived on the scene in a very few minutesand, after examining SGT Moody, determined that he had died almost instantly due to cardiac arrest.