ML20151X942
| ML20151X942 | |
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| Issue date: | 06/23/1977 |
| From: | Jordan E, Roy G, Galen Smith NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
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| PNO-77-111, NUDOCS 9809180024 | |
| Download: ML20151X942 (1) | |
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nuitritailua cy Juns 23, 1977 FRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PNO-77 QM This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of an event ofW -
POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance. The information )
prcsented is as initially received without verification or evaluation and is basically all that is known by IE staff on this date.
Facility: Riverside Methodist Hospital, License No. 34-10055-03 Columbus, Ohio
Subject:
DEPUTY CORONER'S REMARKS ATTRIBUTE RADIATION AS CONTRIBUTORY k
TO DEATH OF TEN PATIENTS AT RIVERSIDE METHODIST HOSPITAL Preliminary Notification Nos. PN0 76-75,76-110, and 77-70 describe events which resulted from a number of patients having been exposed to therapeutic doses of radiation in excess of those prescribed from a Eeletherapy machine at Riverside Methodist Hospital'in Columbus, Ohio.
The following' item is considered as a continuance of that event and associated occurrences. '~
A medical doctor reported in a speech on June 20, 1977 that 10 persons who were exposed to radiation above prescribed doses at Riverside Methodist Hospital, died as a result of complications arising from the radiation.
The doctor is a Pathologist on the hospital staff as well as being deputy coroner for Columbus, Ohio. The statements were made during a speech to a convention of the International Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners and the Ohio State Coroners Association.
The speech was covered by local news media on June 21, 1977. Followup stories appeared June 22, 1977 reporting that 85 suits have been' filed E
against tho hospital as a result of the overexposures. The June 22 - -
1977 stories also reported that NRC checks of other teletherapy licensees in Ohio showed that all teletherapy units checked had radiation outputs within five percent of the calibrated output.
RIII does not plan to make a pressj release. A NRC medical consultant is reviewing the results of all autopsies.
RIII became aware of the above information on the afternoon of June 21, 1977 and received a copy of a June 21, 1977 news article on June 22, 1977.
Contact:
CSmith, IE x27353 ELJordan, IE x27353 GWRoy, IE x27261 .
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