Special Exposure Cohort (SEC)
Our firm’s focus is on the fifty-plus Special Exposure Cohort, SEC, facilities. Eligible classes of employees from SEC facilities, and their loved ones, have an increased chance of successfully pursuing their claim because generally they will be eligible for potential compensation from the EEOICPA fund if the worker was employed at one of the designated SEC facilities for at least 250 days and later developed one of 22 specified cancers. This is much less difficult than non-SEC claims that might require, for example, complicated “dose reconstruction” to determine the probability that the cancer was caused by exposure to materials at the Department of Energy facility where they worked.
SEC claims can typically be resolved within about four months, though claim times over a year are possible.
The SEC includes employees who:
- Worked at gaseous diffusion plants in Paducah, Kentucky, Portsmouth, Ohio, or Oak Ridge, Tennessee for a total of at least 250 days before February 1, 1992, and were monitored for radiation exposure with dosimetry badges or had jobs with similar exposures to those monitored.
- Worked before January 1, 1974, on Amchitka Island, Alaska and were exposed to radiation related to the Long Shot, Milrow or Cannikin underground nuclear tests.
Since it’s inception, groups of employees from the following facilities have been added to the SEC:
- Allied Chemical Corporation
- Ames Laboratory
- Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory
- Baker Brothers
- Battelle Laboratories King Avenue
- Bethlehem Steel Corporation
- Blockson Chemical Company
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- BWX Technologies, Inc.
- Canoga Avenue
- Clarksville Modification Center
- Clinton Engineer Works
- Combustion Engineering
- Connecticut Aircraft Nuclear Engine Laboratory (CANEL)
- DeSoto Avenue
- Dow Chemical Company
- Downey Facility
- Electro Metallurgical
- Feed Material Production Center (Fernald)
- General Atomics
- General Electric Co.
- Grand Junction Operations Office
- Hanford
- Harshaw Harvard-Denison
- Hood Building
- Hooker Electrochemical Corporation
- Horizons, Inc.
- Iowa Ordnance Plant (Iowa Army Ammunition Plant), Line 1
- Joslyn Manufacturing and Supply Co.
- Kellex/Pierpont
- Lake Ontario Ordnance Works (LOOW)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Linde Ceramics
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Mallinckrodt Chemical Works
- Medina Modification Center
- Metallurgical Laboratory
- Metals and Controls Corp.
- Mound
- Nevada Test Site
- Norton Company
- Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC), Park Township
- Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC), Apollo
- Nuclear Metals, Inc,
- Oak Ridge Hospital
- Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies Cancer Research Hospital (ORINS)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (X-10)
- Pacific Proving Grounds
- Pantex
- Piqua Organic Moderated Reactor Site
- Revere Copper and Brass
- Rocky Flats
- S-50 Oak Ridge Thermal Diffusion Plant
- SAM (Special Alloyed or Substitute Alloy Materials) Laboratories of Columbia University
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Sandia National Laboratories-Livermore
- Savannah River
- Simonds Saw and Steel Company
- Spencer Chemical Company/Jayhawk Works
- Standard Oil Development Company
- St. Louis Airport Storage
- Texas City Chemicals, Inc.
- Tyson Valley Powder Farm
- University of Rochester Atomic Energy Project
- Ventron Corporation
- Vitro Manufacturing
- Wah Chang
- Westinghouse Atomic Power Development Plant
- Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Winchester Engineering and Analytical Center
- W.R. Grace, Erwin, Tennessee
- W.R. Grace, Curtis Bay, Maryland
- Y-12
Check out the statistics we have compiled on the number and success of claims at various facilities.
For more information on SEC facilities visit the Department of Labor’s facilities page.