Occupational Risk

Death Rate Among Oak Ridge Workers Equals National Rate

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 21st, 1997

The death rate among the thousands of people who have toiled in the government's research and nuclear weapons facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is no greater than the rest of the country, researchers said.

They said they had actually expected the Oak Ridge worker mortality rate to be lower, though - as would be expected of any population capable of holding a job.

Begun in 1990, the exhaustive study by Oak Ridge Associated Universities also suggested that cancer deaths are no greater here proportionately than the national average. But it found higher levels of lung cancer deaths and nonmalignant respiratory disease among white male workers; and...

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