Baker Brothers

Location

2551-2555 Harleau Place

1000 Post Street

Toledo, Ohio

Between June 1943 and July 1944, DuPont and the University of Chicago subcontracted the Baker Brothers company to machine roll metal rods into uranium slugs that were used for fuel in the world’s first production reactors located in Oak Ridge, TN and Hanford, WA.
Environmental cleanup under the Formerly Utilized Site Remediation Action Program was conducted in 1995. This work was performed under the Bechtel National Inc. umbrella contract for DOE site environmental remediation. This site’s remedial action was certified complete in 2001.
During the period of residual contamination, as designated by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and as noted in the dates above, employees of subsequent owners and operators of this facility are also covered under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act.

Alternative Names

  • Rems, Incorporated

Type of Facility

  • Atomic Weapons Employer
  • Department of Energy

Covered by EEOICPA

  • Part B
  • Part B and Part E

EEOICPA Covered Years

  • 1943-1944 (AWE)
  • 1945-1994 (residual radiation)
  • 1996 (residual radiation)
  • 1995 (DOE-remediation)

Contractors

  • Bechtel National (remediation)
  • Du Pont
  • University of Chicago

Did work for:

  • Hanford
  • Oak Ridge

DOE

DOL

NIOSH

Other Resources

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