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Rocky Flats Plant Site


Employee Occupational Exposure and Health

Incident and Occurrence Records, 1958-Current

Location:

Active: RF-T115 A, Room 40; Building 116, Hall Area
Inactive: RF-T124 A, Cubicle 27; Cargo Container A, behind Building 123; 881 Archives, Room 214; DFRC
Access Restrictions: Records are unclassified and may be a Privacy Act System of Records; T115 A, Building 116, T124 A, and Cargo Container A are in an access-controlled area; 881 Archives is a security-controlled area.

Volume: Approximately 25.75 cu. ft.

Accession or Other ID Number:
RF-T115 A:
1) None


RF-Building 116:
2) None


RF-T124 A:
3) None

RF-Cargo Container A:
4) None


RF-881 Archives:
5) H312
DFRC:
6) 326-67B-0500
7) 326-71A-1038
8) 326-75K-0470
9) 326-82-0003
10) 434-93-0080
11) 434-93-0096
12) 434-93-0109
13) 434-94-0041
14) 434-94-0061


Container Number:

1) Records are in two
drawers of a 4-drawer lateral filing cabinet

2) Records are in the third drawer of the fifth of five 5-drawer filing cabinets

3) Records are interfiled in 20 boxes of varying sizes

4) Series records are interfiled with other records in containers 1871-1873

5) H312

6) SB215089
7) SB200973
8) 925639
9) 217158
10) 591450, 591467
11) 12014-12015
12) PB3007
13) 224126
14) 7941


Condition: Good

Medium: Paper and photographs

Scanning Suitability: Series contains handwritten forms and photographs.

Duplication: Unknown

Arrangement: Generally chronological; records from 1989 are numerical by report number.

Originating Office: Security Operations Division and Safety and Health Division of DOE; Product and Health Physics Research, Health Physics, Radiation Monitoring, and Radiological Engineering organizations of Dow Chemical Company, Rockwell International, and EG&G

Finding Aids: 1-4) None; 5) Records Storage Receipt; 6-14) NARA Standard Form 135

Disposition Authority: 1) Unscheduled; 2) Designated for periodic review by DOE Records Management; 3) DOE (1988) 1.1a(2); 4) DOE (1988) 1.3; 5) Permanent; 6-12) DOE (1988) 1.5d; 13) DOE (1988) 1.5f; 14) DOE (1988) 1.5d

Series Description: This series consists of Unusual Occurrence Reports, Radiological Contamination Incident Reports, and Radioactive Contamination Release to the Work Place Reports, all of which document building contamination and employee radiation exposures resulting from equipment failures, leaks, and spills. Information in the records includes the dates and times of incidents; names of employees involved; buildings and equipment involved; immediate actions taken by supervisors; apparent causes of the incidents; and corrective actions taken to insure against similar incidents. Some of the reports also include photographs showing the extent of damage to equipment and estimates of repair costs. Accession Number H312 contains records which document fires and explosions in Building 771, 776, and 777; Accession Number 434-93-0080 (Box 591467) has a single folder of Critique Meeting Minutes relating to an incident which occurred in Building 371.

For related records, see Volume VII. Occurrence Reporting and Processing System (ORPS), 1994-Current.

Data Elements: 8, 16, 31, 38-39, 59-60, 62, 65, 69, 71, 77, 81, 85, 88-89, 102-103, 107, 117, 119, 122, 124

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