ML20151X928
| ML20151X928 | |
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| Issue date: | 06/22/1977 |
| From: | Liza Cunningham, Higginbotham L, Roy G NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
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| References | |
| PNO-77-109, NUDOCS 9809180012 | |
| Download: ML20151X928 (1) | |
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-a uv6a Aw wa June 22, 1977 Q)R MLLtrYJ2 l PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PNO-77-1 f
This preliminary notification constituteg $RLY notice of an event of pc '.
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POSSIBLE safety or public interest signird ance. The information d.>
presented is as initially received without verification or evaluation
_and is basically all that is known by IE staff on this date.
Facility:
Mustang Services Company Houston Texas (State of Texas License No. 8-2209 under
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NRC-241 Reciprocity Approval) l
Subject:
ALLEGED OVEREXPOSURE An OSHA representative in Oklahoma City informed Region IV (Arlington) on June 20, 1977, that the U. S. Department of Labor had received a written allegation of overexposure to radiation from a Mustang Services Company employee.
The employee alleged he received the over-exposure while using a three-curie Cesium 137 source contained in a pipe wall thickness measurement device. The employee further stated he began to have a health problem in April 1977 and stated he was hospitalized on June 1, 1977,following verification of radiation sickness symptoms by his. physician. The OSHA representative reports that a co-worker of the alleger is also experiencing similar health problems.
The alleged overexposure apparently occured at work sites in and around Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which were performed under NRC reciprocity.
A Region IV (Arlington) inspector vas dispatched to Oklahoma City
===i on June 21, 1977, to evaluate the licensee's safety program and to interview the employees. An NRC medical consultant has been alerted.
No press release is planned by NRC or OSHA. The State of Oklahoma has been informed.
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Region IV (Arlington) received notification of the allega' tion by telephone from an OSHA representative in Oklahoma City at about 1:00 P.M. on June 20, 1977.
Contact:
LHCunningham, IE x27413 LHigginbotham, IE x27347 GRoy, IE x27261
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Distribution: Transmitted H St //."/V Chairman Rowden C. C. Kammerer, CA G. F. Murphy, JCAE Commissioner Kennedy S. J. Chilk, SECY H. H. Whiteside, SCNR Commissioner Gilinsky H. R. Myers, HCEE Transmitted: MNBB//I P Bldg / /.*
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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)
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