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The following report was received via emai … The following report was received via email:</br>The department received a notification from a radiography company (on 12/16/09) located in Kent, Washington, about an event (that occurred) while performing radiographic operations in a fabrication shop in Sedro Wooley, Washington. A 2 inch pipe fell onto the source guide tube and the radiography crew was unable to retract their source past the damage. The crew called the company's Radiation Safety Officer who sent an assistant to the site with lead blankets. The assistant was able to normally retract the source through the damaged area and into the shielded safe storage position of the radiographic exposure device. The dose to the assistant RSO was reported as 480 mRem. No other individuals were reported to have received an elevated dose. A full report from the company's RSO will be made after they perform a reenactment of the incident.</br>WA Incident Number: WA-09-093</br>Source material: 80 Ci, Ir-192</br>* * * UPDATE FROM BRANDIN KETTER TO VINCE KLCO ON 2/8/10 AT 1857 VIA EMAIL* * * </br>A full report was received from the company on 12/18/09. TLD's worn by the three individuals involved in the incident were processed the next day by Landauer. Two of these individuals were the radiography crew who were working with the equipment when the source failed to retract. Their doses were reported as 79 mRem and 261 mRem. It was also reported that most of this exposure could probably be attributed to the previous 14 and 1/2 days of radiography work. The third person receiving a dose from this incident was the assistant RSO. This person received a dose of 22 mRem. Three other people in the company who responded to the incident site were reported to have received no dose. The damaged equipment was tagged and taken out of service.</br>Notified R4DO (Jones) and FSME (Shaffer).
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The following report was received via emai … The following report was received via email:</br>The department received a notification from a radiography company (on 12/16/09) located in Kent, Washington, about an event (that occurred) while performing radiographic operations in a fabrication shop in Sedro Wooley, Washington. A 2 inch pipe fell onto the source guide tube and the radiography crew was unable to retract their source past the damage. The crew called the company's Radiation Safety Officer who sent an assistant to the site with lead blankets. The assistant was able to normally retract the source through the damaged area and into the shielded safe storage position of the radiographic exposure device. The dose to the assistant RSO was reported as 480 mRem. No other individuals were reported to have received an elevated dose. A full report from the company's RSO will be made after they perform a reenactment of the incident.</br>WA Incident Number: WA-09-093</br>Source material: 80 Ci, Ir-192</br>* * * UPDATE FROM BRANDIN KETTER TO VINCE KLCO ON 2/8/10 AT 1857 VIA EMAIL* * * </br>A full report was received from the company on 12/18/09. TLD's worn by the three individuals involved in the incident were processed the next day by Landauer. Two of these individuals were the radiography crew who were working with the equipment when the source failed to retract. Their doses were reported as 79 mRem and 261 mRem. It was also reported that most of this exposure could probably be attributed to the previous 14 and 1/2 days of radiography work. The third person receiving a dose from this incident was the assistant RSO. This person received a dose of 22 mRem. Three other people in the company who responded to the incident site were reported to have received no dose. The damaged equipment was tagged and taken out of service.</br>Notified R4DO (Jones) and FSME (Shaffer).
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