ML20151U462
| ML20151U462 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 05/25/1977 |
| From: | Liza Cunningham, Higginbotham L, Roy G NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
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| References | |
| PNO-77-090, PNO-77-90, NUDOCS 9809110013 | |
| Download: ML20151U462 (1) | |
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POR ctd y ytte C2] M PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION 3
May 25, 1977 ^
PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PNO-77-90 This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of an event of POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance. The information presented is as initially received without verification or evaluation and is basically all that is known by IE staff on this date.
FACILITY: Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital, . Tulsa, Oklahoma License No. 35-05860-01
SUBJECT:
CONTAMINATION INCIDENT A maintenance worker dropped and broke a flask containing an unknown !
quantity of technetium-99 solution on his person while installing shielding in the nuclear medicine facilities on May 19. The material was tracked into the lunch room by the maintenance worker in disregard of instructions by the technician present that he should be decontaminated.
As a result of the incident, the maintenance worker was fired after being .
decontaminated by the hospital Radiation Safety officer.
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The maintenance man reported to St. Johns Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for examination on May 23 and purportedly was free of detectable contamination with no visible evidence of biological injury. The individual allegedly l
stated that he intends to file a radiation injury suit against Oklahoma '
Osteopathic Hospital. It appears unlikely that any regulatory radiation i dose limit was exceeded.
, i In view of the possible filing of a damage suit, media interest could be 4 expected. .
Region IV had t'elephonic contact with the Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital on May 24, and an inspector will conduct an investigation at the licensee's
, facility on May 25. l i
Region IV (Arlington, Texas) received original notification of the incident h;/
from a representative of the Oklahoma State Health Department by telephone j at 4:15 p.m. on May 23. .
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Contact:
LJCunningham, IE x27413 LHigginbotham, IE x27347 GWRoy,IEx2/261 Distribution: Transmitted H St f!.G' Chairman Rowden C. C. Kammerer, CA 2:
G. F. Murphy, JCAE Commissioner Kennedy S. J. Chilk, SECY H. H. Whiteside, SCNR Commissioner Gilinsky H. R. Kyers, HCEE Transmitted: MNBB9lSr P Bldg H 6 k SS Bldg Q l 6 M L. V. Gossick, EDO E. G. Case, NRR C. V. Smith, NMSS S. H. Hanauer, EDO J. A. Harris, PA W. G. Mcdonald, MIPC Luge (MAIL) E. Volgenau
. R. G. Ryan, OSP T. J. ETTernan, 0IA Region,fs. IEo:Y tj H. K. Shapar, ELD '
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