TEPCO Subcontractor Tried to Underreport Workers’ Radiation Exposure by Covering Dosimeters with Lead
July 23, 2012
Source: Kyodo
An executive of a Tokyo Electric Power Co. subcontractor forced its nine workers at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to cover their radiation monitoring meters with lead-made plates, the company said Saturday.
The executive is believed to have tried to underreport radiation exposure, prompting the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry to launch an investigation on suspicion of violating the industrial safety and health law, according to its officials.
The executive in his 50s, who works for a company based in Fukushima Prefecture, told the workers last Dec. 1 to attach the plates to the alarm pocket dosimeters the utility known as TEPCO had provided them with to monitor their radiation exposure, according to sources close to the matter.
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