An employee parked the truck containing the
Troxler Moisture Density Gauge (Model 3411B, s/n 7573, Am/Be 40 milli Curies,
Cs-137 8 milli Curies) overnight at his apartment complex. The
gauge was secured by a lock and chain. The truck was parked at 2200
CDT on 08/15/05. When the employee returned to the truck at 0700 on 08/16/05 the chain was cut and the
gauge was gone. The theft was reported to the police.
TX report number: TX-I-8252.
Less than the quantity of an IAEA Category 3 source.
Sources that are "Less than IAEA Category 3 sources," are either sources that are very unlikely to cause permanent injury to individuals or contain a very small amount of radioactive material that would not cause any permanent injury.
For some of these sources, such as moisture density gauges or thickness gauges that are Category 4, the amount of unshielded radioactive material, if not safely managed or securely protected, could possibly - although it is unlikely - temporarily injure someone who handled it or were otherwise in contact with it, or who were close to it for a period of many weeks.
- * * UPDATE FROM CHRIS MOORE TO J. KNOKE AT 16:46 EDT ON 08/18/05 * * *
An individual called the owner of the lost Troxler gauge, indicating it was discarded on her property. The gauge was initially picked up by the local fire department, and then by the owner. The gauge was surveyed and had readings of less than 1 mr/hr. The gauge was found to have no damage, however, all the associated paperwork was missing.
Notified the R4DO (Sanborn), NMSS (Holonich) and TAS (Perez) of the update. Faxed Mexico the update.
Note: Event modified on 8/22/05 to correct the name of the individual from the State of
Texas that provided the update to this event.