ML20236T966

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PN-75-042:on 750627,licensee Notified Region IV That Radiographer Potentially Received Whole Body Exposure of 12 Rem & as Yet Undetermined Hand Exposure While Performing Radiography at Licensee Shop
ML20236T966
Person / Time
Issue date: 06/27/1975
From: Jennifer Davis, Galen Smith, Thornburg H
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
To:
References
PN-75-042, PN-75-42, NUDOCS 9807290207
Download: ML20236T966 (1)


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PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION - NOT FOR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE June 27, 1975

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PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE -- PN-75-42 i

This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of i

.p POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance.

The information i

presented is as initially received without verification or evaluation and is basically all that is known by OIE staff as of 3:30 p.m.

on date of this notification.

IT SHOULD BE SPECIFICALLY NOTED THAT THIS NOTIFICATION MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT LATER MAY BE DETERMINED TO BE INACCURATE OR INCONSISTENT. AN OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT NOTIFICATION OF AN INCIDENT OR OCCURRENCE (BLUE SHEET) SUBSEQUENTLY RILL BE ISSUED IF WARRANTED.

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- Licensee: - National Tank Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Subject:

Possible Overexposure (Type B) l Licensee notified Region IV by telephone on 6/27/75 that a radiographer

-l potentially received a whole body exposure of 12 rem and as yet an undetermined hand exposure while performing radiography at the licensee's shop on the morning of 6/27/75.

The radiographer, using a camera containing 40 C1 of Ir-192, failed to make surveys to ensure the source was in the shielded position'and performed

- work for approximately 2-1/2 minutes around the exposed source.

N Licensee evaluation indicates a 12, rem whole body exposure.. Extremity dose being evaluated.

Film badge air mailed to U. S. Testing for

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prompt processing.

Radiographer taken to Class-Nelson Clinic, Tulsa for examination.

No publicity and action by Region IV to be determined after film badge processed.

OIE (Region IV) received notification of this occurrence by telephone from licensee's Radiation Safety Officer at 11:45 a.m. CDT on 6/27/75.

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Contact:

GHSnith, IE n?261 HDThornburg, IE x7353, JGDavis, IE x7541 f

Distribution:

Chairman Anders Co=missioner Mason S. J. Chilk, SECY j

OI Commissioner Gilinsky Co=missioner Rowden G. F. Murphy, JCAE M

Commissioner Kennedy C. C. Kammerer.CA r

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