The following was excerpted from an email received from the State of Florida:
Received a notification letter from a licensee [NDE, Inc.] reporting a possible overexposure. According to the [Radiation Safety Officer] RSO for NDE, an employee had the leather pouch that his badge and his pocket dosimeter were in cut open resulting in his badge falling out near where radiography was taking place. The missing badge was discovered during a routine check of his pocket dosimeter which read 2 mRem for the shift. The badge was sent to Landauer for analysis and the recorded dose for the time period of Oct. 10 - Nov. 9, 2017 was 23.420 Rem. After conducting interviews, the RSO concluded that the overexposure was due to the badge being so close to the source, and the employee did not receive the recorded dose. After compiling the daily pocket dosimeter readings, the estimated dose to the employee would have been 57 mRem for that time period.
Incident Number: FL 18-003