ENS 43352
ENS Event | |
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05:00 May 4, 2007 | |
| Title | Agreement State Report - Louisiana - Worker Overexposure |
| Event Description | The State provided the following information via facsimile:
[A licensee representative] with Nondestructive and Visual inspection notified the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality on May 4, 2007 of an overexposure. The indicated exposure from the badge reading is 5123 mrem. Additional information will be forwarded once it is received. Louisiana Event Report ID No.: LA070011
Upon further investigation, it has been determined that there were two separate incidents where employees of Nondestructive & Visual Inspections, LLC may have exceeded the annual dose limit of 5 rem. The first incident was the original basis for the above initial notification. "The worker involved] is an industrial radiographer, certified by the State of Louisiana. [The worker] . . .was employed by NVI, LLC from April 30, 2005 until March 29, 2007, at which time he was terminated for violating company policies. [The worker] did not turn in his March 2007 TLD badge. In February 2007, [the worker's] lifetime dose equivalent, while employed at NVI, LLC was 5117 millirems. His year to date dose equivalent for 2007 at this time was 132 millirems. His year to date dose equivalent for 2006 was 2535 millirems. This dose includes a calculated dose for the month of December 2006 for a badge that according to [the worker] was lost. On May 1, 2007, NVI, LLC received an exposure notification from Landauer for [the worker's] December 2006 TLD badge of 3156 millirems. This put his year to date dose equivalent for 2006 at 5691 millirems, which exceeds the annual dose limit for radiographers. The lost badge was apparently found and returned to Landauer by mistake. There is no way to determine what dose the badge had been exposed to during the four months that it was unaccounted for. [NVI, LLC] has tried on numerous occasions to reach [the worker] by phone to discuss this matter with him. [NVI, LLC] has been unsuccessful in attempts [to reach him] so far. The second incident involves another [worker]. [The worker] is an industrial radiographer trainee, certified by the State of Louisiana.. . . .[The worker] has been employed by NVI, LLC, since April 1, 2005. On May 4, 2007, [NVI, LLC ] received an exposure notification from Landauer. [The worker's] dose for the month of March 2007 was 5363 millirems. His year to date dose equivalent for 2007 is 5514 millirems. [NVI, LLC] notified [the worker] immediately and informed him that he could not perform radiography. [NVI, LLC] met with [the worker] the same day and discussed the overexposure. [The worker] stated that there was no way possible that he could have receive such a dose. He stated that at no time did he ever go offscale or have any type of incident or accident while performing his duties during the month of March 2007. . . .[The worker] is still employed by NVI, LLC and has been reassigned to perform other NDT methods that do not include radiography. R4DO (Bywater) and FSME (Morell) have been notified. |
| Where | |
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| Nondestructive And Visual Inspection Louisiana (NRC Region 4) | |
| License number: | LA-5601-L01 |
| Organization: | Louisiana Radiation Protection Div |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+106.67 h4.445 days <br />0.635 weeks <br />0.146 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Richard Penrod 15:40 May 8, 2007 |
| NRC Officer: | Bill Huffman |
| Last Updated: | May 16, 2007 |
| 43352 - NRC Website | |
Nondestructive And Visual Inspection with Agreement State | |
WEEKMONTHYEARENS 433522007-05-04T05:00:0004 May 2007 05:00:00
[Table view]Agreement State Agreement State Report - Louisiana - Worker Overexposure 2007-05-04T05:00:00 | |