The following information was received via facsimile (
North Carolina Incident report 04-19):
The shipment was picked up from SRB Technologies, Inc. in Winston Salem, NC. The shipment was to be delivered to Wild Sales Co. in Santa Fe Springs, CA by Pilot Air Freight (shipment #070743258). Pilot Air Freight picked up a shipment of 14 boxes of which 13 boxes contained 129
tritium exit signs from the licensee on April 23, 2004. The balance of 1 box contained sign accessories/hardware. The sign customer notified the licensee that a box was missing on April 28, 2004. Pilot freight was immediately informed and they began investigating. Final confirmation was given to the licensee on May 11, 2004 that the box could not be located. The missing box contained 10
exit signs each containing 9.9 curies of
tritium. The serial numbers of the missing signs are 316493-316502.