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| Start date | Reporting criterion | Title | Event description | System | LER | |
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| ENS 56726 | 7 September 2023 21:15:00 | Agreement State | Agreement State - Lost and Recovered Troxler Gauge | The following information was provided by the Florida Bureau of Radiation Control (the Bureau) via email: On or about 1715 (EDT), 9/7/23, (the licensee's) Assistant Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) notified (the Bureau) of a missing soil moisture density gauge. Operator (deleted) believed the gauge to be absent due to the storage/transport box 'feeling light' when the box was moved at 1700 EDT. Sanford Police Department (PD) was notified by the licensee. (A Bureau investigator) was notified. The NRC was notified. Upon a subsequent thorough search of job site with Sanford PD, (the licensee) called the (Bureau's) duty officer at approximately 1800 EDT to report the gauge was located in the storage/transport box, which was within a locked and fenced area. Florida Incident Number: FL23-141
Just to clarify, I talked to the RSO this morning and he said the gauge user assumed the gauge was left at the job site that morning because when he got back to the office that evening to remove his samples, he had to move the gauge case and it felt light. It wasn't until they went back to the job site to meet with the PD that someone actually looked in the case and then realized the gauge was still in there. So the gauge was never out of their possession or control, they just assumed it was. I will be submitting an investigation and incident report, but not a radioactive material license inspection report since there was no violation for loss of control. Notified R1DO(Young), NMSS_EVENTS_NOTIFICATION via email.
On 9/8/23, at 1026 EDT, the Bureau spoke with Tierra and it was explained that the gauge was misidentified as missing. This occurred because a user determined the Troxler case felt light, and reported the object missing without ensuring the gauge was not present. Notified R1DO(Young), NMSS_EVENTS_NOTIFICATION via email. | ||
| ENS 43839 | 12 December 2007 14:00:00 | Agreement State | Florida Agreement State Report - Stolen Troxler Moisture Density Gauge | Troxler gauge stolen from storage facility. Incident discovered at 0900 12-Dec-07; this office notified at 1015 same day. Police on scene. Owner will offer reward. No further action will be taken by this office. Isotopes: Cs-137 & Am-241 Activities: 8 mCi's & 40 mCi's Material Form: By-product; Special Form Probable Disposition of Material: Material stolen and not recovered Model Number: Troxler 3430, Serial Number 32900 Organizations Notified: HSER, HSERE, St. Augustine Police Dept. Case #021610 Incident Location: 150 St. Johns Business Place Suite 303, St. Augustine, FL 32095 Location Classification: Controlled Area FL Incident Number: FL07-194 THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "LESS THAN CAT 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL Sources that are "Less than IAEA Category 3 sources," are either sources that are very unlikely to cause permanent injury to individuals or contain a very small amount of radioactive material that would not cause any permanent injury. Some of these sources, such as moisture density gauges or thickness gauges that are Category 4, the amount of unshielded radioactive material, if not safely managed or securely protected, could possibly - although it is unlikely - temporarily injure someone who handled it or were otherwise in contact with it, or who were close to it for a period of many weeks. |