The following was received from the State of
Texas via email:
On March 10, 2014, the Agency [State of Texas] received notice of a radiography source disconnect that occurred on March 6, 2014. The source was a 92.2 curie iridium-192 radiography source. The event occurred at a temporary field site just south of the border with New Mexico near Carlsbad, NM on the Texas side. No exposures to the public resulted from this event. No overexposures resulted from this event. The cause of the event is unknown at this time. The source was retrieved by the licensee. The licensee's initial report to the Agency [State of Texas] was later than 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> after the event. Additional information will be supplied as it is received in accordance with SA-300.
Texas Incident #: I-9163
- * * UPDATE AT 0912 EDT ON 04/17/14 FROM ART TUCKER TO S. SANDIN VIA EMAIL * * *
The Agency's investigation of this event has determined that there was no source disconnect, but that the radiographer failed to connect the source pigtail to the drive cable prior to connecting the drive assembly to the exposure device. Additional information will be provided in accordance with SA-300.
Notified R4DO (Gaddy) and FSME via email.
On April 29, 2014, the Agency received the final dose information for the radiographer who picked up the guide tube with the source still in it. A dose of 15.11 rem was assigned to his hand that picked up the guide tube and he received 509 millirem DDE on his whole body badge. Additional information will be provided as it is received in accordance with SA-300.
Notified R4DO (Haire) and
FSME Events Resource.