| This analytic data file set consists of one file generated for a retrospective cohort mortality study of white males employed at the SRS in 1952 to 1974 by Donna Cragle, et al., published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine in 1988. |
| The published paper describes the overall and cause-specific mortality for a cohort of 9,860 white males who were hired between 1952 (when the facility began operation) and December 31, 1974, and who were employed at SRS for at least 90 days during this time. Exposures to radiation or chemicals were not considered. Separate analyses were presented for hourly employees (6,687) and salaried employees (2,745) by time period of first hire and by length of employment. These workers experienced mortality comparable with that of U.S. males and, in fact, exhibited fewer deaths than expected in many categories of diseases. Specifically, fewer deaths were noted in the categories of all causes, all cancers, cancer of the digestive organs, lung cancer, brain cancer (hourly workers only), diabetes, all diseases of the circulatory system, all respiratory diseases, all digestive system diseases, all diseases of the genitourinary system (hourly workers only), and all external causes of death. A statistically significant, and as yet unexplained, increase in leukemia mortality appeared in a subset of the hourly workers who were first hired before 1955 and were employed between 5 and 15 years. |
| The one analytic file, SRC88A01_d1 (SRANA4), in this data file set contains one record per person in the cohort, including demographic, work history, and vital status data on all members of the cohort. |
| Hourly employees were judged to be those employees who worked for 90 or more consecutive days at an hourly classification and less than 90 consecutive days at a salaried classification. Salaried employees were judged to be those employees who worked 90 or more consecutive days in a salaried classification and less than 90 days in an hourly classification. A third category consisted of those who worked 90 or more days consecutively in both classifications. Vital status was ascertained for 94.2% (N = 9,288) of the cohort through December 31, 1980, the study end date. There were 1,091 deaths identified, and death certificates were obtained for 96.9% of these deaths. |
| No personal monitoring data were used in this analysis. |
