RBG-36852, Special Rept:On 920517,employee Sustained Head Injury in Drywell.Employee Considered Contaminated Because Area Was Contaminated.Subsequent Surveys of Injured Employee Found No Contamination

Special Rept:On 920517,employee Sustained Head Injury in Drywell.Employee Considered Contaminated Because Area Was Contaminated.Subsequent Surveys of Injured Employee Found No Contamination

ML20096G344
Person / Time
Site:	River Bend
Issue date:	05/18/1992
From:	Odell W GULF STATES UTILITIES CO.
To:
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RBG-36852, NUDOCS 9205260041
Download: ML20096G344 (3)

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RBG- 3G852 File Nos. G9.5, G9.25.1.4 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Document Control Desk Washington, D.C. 20555 Gentlemen:

River Bend Station - Unit 1 '

Docket No. 50-458 Please find attached a summary report of the " Notification of Unusual Event" (NOUE) which occurred at River Ser-.i ttion on hiay 17, 1992. The NOUE1 was declared based on Emergency Acuon Level (EAL) 17, " Transportation of overexposed or contaminated injured individual from site to hospital." This summary report is subrnitted pursuant to Appendix 1 of NUREG-0654, Revision 1 and EAL Table 13.3-1 of the River Bend Station Emergency Plan if you hav .

any questions concerning this summary report, please contact hir. L.A. England at (504) 381-4145.

Sincerely, W.H. Odell (

hianager - Oversight River Bend Station Nuclear Group NUWhtS/kvm 22005G

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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Dr. L. Hall Bohlinger Commission Louisiana Radiation Protection 611 Ryan Pim Drive Division Suite 400 P.O. Box 82135 Arlington, TX 76011 Baton Rouge, LA 70884-2135 NRC Resident Inspector Mr.12rry Gibbens P.O. Bon 1051 Director of Emergency it. Francisville, LA 70775 Management East Baton Rouge Parish Col. Willit .n J. Croft 222 St. Louis Street State of Louisiana Baton Rouge, LA 70802 -

Offica of Emergency Preparedness P.O. Box 44217 Mr. Travis W. Prewitt Bai . ) Rouge, LA 70804-4217 Director of Emergency Management Mr. Jesse Means East Feliciana Parish Director of Emergency P.O. Box 397 Management Cimton, L-A 70722 West Feliciana Parish P.O. Box 1877 Mr. James Maher St. Francisville, LA 70775 Director - Mississippi Emergency Mgmt. Agency Mr. Charles J. LeBlanc P.O. Box 4501 Director of Emergency Jackson, MS 39216 Management West Baton Rouge Parish 736 Eucalyptus Street Port Allen,1 A 70767 Mr. Oneil F. Leonard l

Director of Emergency i Management Pointe Coupec Farish P.O. Box 216 New Roads, LA 70760

[ Mr. Eddie Fuente Mississippi State Board of Health Division of Radiological Health P.O. Box 1700 Jackson, MS 39205

O RIVElt IlEND STATION NOTIFICATION OF UNUSUAL EVENT On May 17,1992 at approxima:ely 1800 with the reactor defueled, an employee sustained a head injury in the drywell. He was transported from River Bend Station to the West Feliciana Parish IIcspital. At the time he was transported, he was considered contaminated because he was workmg in a contaminated area.

Ilowever, subsequent surveys of the injured individual, ambulance and ambulance driver found no contamination.

At 1823, a Notification of Unusual Event (NOUE) was declared per Emergency implementing Procedure EIP 2-001, Emergency Action Level 17, " Transportation of overexposed or contaminated injured individual from site to hospital" when the individual was transpotted to the hospital. The NOUP *as subsequently terminated at 1855 when no contamination was found.

Notificatica to the State of Imuisiana and State of Mississippi, the five local governments within the 10 mile Emergency Planning Zone and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission incident Response Center began at 1834. Notification to the state and local governments and NRC of the termination began at 1855.

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