ENS 40150

v t e ENS Event
23:30 Sep 9, 2003
Title	Personnel Overexposure
Event Description	The RSO reported that on 9/9/03 an employee radiographer received a radiation exposure of 14.15 Rem whole body and 13.445 Rem shallow dose (by film badge data received 9/11/03) during pipe weld radiography for a piping fabricator's job site in Charleston, WV. A second employee received a dose of 627 millirem whole body and 613 millirem shallow dose (by film badge). No health-related symptoms have been noted by either employee. Following a radiography shot of a pipe weld, and after the source was thought to have been retracted, the equipment was being setup for a shot of the next weld. When the source was to be exposed for the second shot, it was discovered that the source had actually been exposed (probably fully) during the estimated 7-minute setup time. Both employees were wearing dosimeters which were found off scale and were wearing rad alarm devices set at 500 millirem/hr which they stated did not alarm. Additionally, the employees stated that a radiation survey was performed during the setup with no excessive radiation levels detected. The local RSO checked the survey meter and the radiography equipment and found nothing wrong. The radiography camera is an AEA Sentinal Model 660B (20.6 Curies Ir-192).

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Where
U.S. Inspection Services Charleston, West Virginia (NRC Region 2)
License number:	34-06943-02
Organization:	U.S. Inspection Services
Reporting

10 CFR 20.2202(b)(1)
Time - Person (Reporting Time:+46.27 h1.928 days <br />0.275 weeks <br />0.0634 months <br />)
Opened:	Damon Lamb 21:46 Sep 11, 2003
NRC Officer:	Mike Ripley
Last Updated:	Sep 11, 2003
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