How is employment and exposure evaluated and established for uranium workers under Part E?
A – Any verified employment at a uranium mine or mill located in the covered states during the covered time period will suffice to establish employment. However, alleged exposures of uranium miners and millers to toxic substances will have to be established by evaluating all of the relevant evidence available. Uranium ore or vanadium uranium ore transporters must show exposure by at least one day’s presence at a covered mine or mill. Only exposure at covered facilities will be utilized to determine if an illness was caused by exposure to a toxic substance. DOL will obtain exposure data from DOJ and other sources when it adjudicates these. As with other workers, it must be shown that a claimed toxic substance was present at a given mine or mill and that the uranium worker came into contact with such substance.
