A safety record was set at inl's amwtp on December 17, when workers reached the five-year mark-more than 7.7 million hours-without a lost workday injury. The safety streak at the Department of Energy's Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project began December 7, 2003, following the last lost workday injury, which occurred when an employee tripped on a stairway. Workers at the AMWTP retrieve, characterize, treat, and ship radioactive transuranic waste from Idaho National Laboratory to the DOE's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.
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