Greenhorne and O'Mara Consulting Engineers Report:
Licensee called BRC at 8:20am on 5/24/07 to report (2) Troxler gauges stolen from their temporary work site in Nokomis, FL [corner of SR 681 and US 41]. Both gauges were last seen 5/23/07 around 6 pm and were discovered missing early morning 5/24/07. Gauges were locked and secured inside a steel container (conex box) at the temporary job site. Sarasota County Sheriffs department was notified and is investigating. A police report is expected shortly. One of the Troxler gauges belongs to another licensee at the work site: Hubbard Construction company (see incident # FL-07-084). Both licensees were made aware that the BRC recommends that they offer a reward for information leading to the recovery of the gauges and that they advertise in the newspaper, and/or inform the local TV News regarding the reward offer. NRC and HSER were notified. Investigation will continue.
Both gauges are Troxler Model 3411B (S/N's 20029 and 6127), each containing two (2) sources, i.e., 8 millicuries Cs-137 and 40 millicuries Am-241:Be.
At the time the State of FL was notified, the Sarasota Sheriff's Department was enroute to the scene.
Florida report: #FL-07-083 and FL-07-084.
Florida License Numbers:
Hubbard: 1100-1,
Greenhorne and O'Mara: 2143-1
On 10/11/07, the State notified the HQ Operations Officer that both Troxler gauges were found in the woods near Naples, FL (Sarasota Co.) with the handle locks intact on 10/01/07. The Florida Bureau of Radiation Control verified no abnormal radiation coming from or contamination on the gauges. The State contacted the licensees and returned the gauges to the licensees.
Notified FSME EO (Flanders), R1DO (Cook), and ILTAB (e-mailed)
THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "LESS THAN CAT 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
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. 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.