ENS 54850

v t e ENS Event
23:00 Aug 18, 2020
Title	Potential Overexposure Resulting in Burn
Event Description	The following is a summary from a phone call with the Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) at Uniformed Services University of Health Services: At the Uniformed Services University of Health Services, a research individual, authorized to operate the self-shielded CO-60 irradiator, last operated the irradiator on Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 1900 EDT. On Wednesday, August 19, 2020, she experienced a burn on her left hand and went to the hospital believing it to be from a radiation overexposure. From information she received at the hospital, in order for her to have received that burn from a radiation overexposure the dose equivalent would have to be estimated to be 600R. The RSO does not believe that to be the case since the highest surveyed area both before and after the event where her hand could have come in contact was a thin pipe reading 150mR/hour on contact. The individual has been in contact with her physician, fingernail samples have been sent out for analysis, the Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS) has been contacted by both the individual and the RSO, and her TLD has been sent out for analysis. The site has taken the machine out-of-service until more information can be collected. The RSO had been in contact with specialists in Region 1.

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Where
Uniformed Services University Bethesda, Maryland (NRC Region 1)
License number:	19-23344-02
Organization:	Uniformed Services University
Reporting

10 CFR 20.2202(b)(1)
Time - Person (Reporting Time:+62.05 h2.585 days <br />0.369 weeks <br />0.085 months <br />)
Opened:	Brian Champaine 13:03 Aug 21, 2020
NRC Officer:	Brian P. Smith
Last Updated:	Aug 21, 2020
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