Homer Simpson Award for Workplace Safety

Jim Caywood, a technical photographer who worked for the lab for 23 years, said the extent of the safety instruction he was given at a radioactive site was "don't pick up any of that green stuff."

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Francine Moran, an administrative assistant* at the lab for 19 years, often escorted visitors into areas of the lab she says were contaminated with radiation. Scientists there, wearing full protective gear, declined to shut down their work because, Moran said, "they felt they could not be inconvenienced because of security protocol." Moran now suffers from a type of endocrine cancer and has had six abdominal surgeries in five years.

From a Chronicle story on the high rate of cancer among Livermore Lab workers.
*Emphasis mine.