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| Entered date | Event description | |
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| ENS 41419 | 18 February 2005 15:34:00 | Today at 1520 EST Schlumberger out of Houston office notified Kentucky Dept. of Radiation Control of the following event. Equitable Production Co. (main office located somewhere in Kentucky) has a stuck well logging source tool. Sometime in the last week the well logging source became stuck at which time the State of Kentucky should have been notified. When trying to retrieve the well logging source the well logging source was broken in half (located in Knott County, Eastern Kentucky). The upper portion of the well logging source containing the americium-241 portion of the well logging was retrieved, no contamination. The top of the stuck well logging tool is at an estimated depth of 3454 feet and the top the cesium-137, 1.7 curies, is at a depth of 3460 feet. According to the State of Kentucky Radiation Control Officer, the 3454 foot depth is vertical depth and there is no contamination or ruptured sources. Plugging well: Will do a 500 foot pour on top the of the stuck well logging source and then place a wipstock on top of the plug. A State of Kentucky Dept. of Radiation Control person will be present when the well is plugged. |
| ENS 40460 | 21 January 2004 16:20:00 | A medical event occurred on 1/19/04 at the Bowling Green Medical Center located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Specifically, an inner vascular Brachytherapy treatment was planned. The catheter ran outside the body through an external valve which was inadvertently partially shut resulting in no dose to the target area. As a result, the doctor administering the treatment received .736 gray at his fingertips. Also, the patient received .736 gray to the thigh area. The source involved was 43.14 curies of strontium-90. There was no significant adverse health effects from this event. A review was initiated by the licensee to determine the cause and to initiate corrective actions. |
| ENS 40461 | 21 January 2004 16:28:00 | On 1/16/04, the radiation detectors alarmed at the North American Stainless scrap yard, located in Ghent, Kentucky, when a truck entered the scrap yard. The scrap yard radiation detectors indicated 42 microrem per hour. The truck was not accepted and sent back to its origin. The scrap material in the truck came from Industrial Services of America. Investigation determined that a piece of a fixed gauge caused the radiation alarms to set off. Apparently, the gauge went through a shredder. On-contact radiation readings were 35 millirem/hour with the shutter closed and 58 millirem/hour with the shutter open. This was considered a loss of radioactive material and further review will be performed to try to determine the owner of the gauge. |