Ebb Cade (17 March 1890 – 13 April 1953) was a construction worker at Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and was the first person subjected to injection with plutonium as an experiment.
[1] On 23 March 1945 Cade was on his way to work at a construction site for the Manhattan Project when he was involved in a traffic accident at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Dr. Hymer Friedell, deputy medical director of the Manhattan Engineer District, determined that as Cade was, as he characterized, a "well developed..well nourished" "colored male", he was suitable for "experimentation" with plutonium injection.
Cade received the injections at the Oak Ridge Hospital on the Clinton Engineer Works reservation without his consent or knowledge.
[7][8][9][10] Urine and feces samples were collected from the test subjects and forwarded to Los Alamos National Laboratory for plutonium analysis.