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Start date | Reporting criterion | Title | Event description | System | LER | |
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ENS 44523 | 26 September 2008 05:00:00 | Agreement State | Agreement State Report - Damaged Moisture Density Gauge | The licensee's Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) called and informed the Agency (Texas Department of State Health Services) that a moisture density gauge had been damaged while it was being used at a work site. The worker had stored the sources in the safe condition and left the gauge at the side of the road he was working on to get a drink of water. Before he returned to the gauge, it was struck by a truck passing by on the road and the gauge rod on the top side of the gauge was bent and the gauge case was damaged. The sources both remained shielded. A service company (Component Sales) has been called to pick up the gauge and conduct an inspection of the device. The gauge is a Troxler Model 3440 ser # 23586 containing a 8 millicurie Cesium (Cs) 137 source and a 40 millicurie Americium (Am) - 241 Beryllium source. Texas Incident # I-8566 |