Test site workers' records dumped: 25 years of data listed tunnel comings,

[NVMojo]

The federal government covers its ass.

September 25, 2006

For 25 years, Sandie Medina filed records for Nevada Test Site workers, keeping in cardboard boxes the toxic-materials reports, personnel rosters, weekly safety meetings, accident log books and lists of miners and craftsmen who re-entered a tunnel where nuclear bomb tests were conducted.

In all, 100 green-and-white Xerox boxes that held the records from 1970 to 1995 were stored in an alcove building at the entrance to N Tunnel in Area 12 at the test site.

It was diligent work Medina was proud of because she thought the information would be useful to any of the workers who might later seek compensation for illnesses they believe stem from their jobs at the test site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

When she last checked in the fall of 1997, Medina said the boxes of records were still in the alcove building.

"But when we went back in February 1998, they were gone," she said Thursday in the hallway of a Las Vegas hotel near where a presidential advisory board had gathered to discuss problems that former test site workers have in proving their compensation claims.

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[LiberalFighter]

1. If duplicates are being scanned...

then they should be able to provide the documents for different dates as requested to prove that they exist.

[medeak]

2. "accidentally put in landfill"?????

K&R