ENS 53641

v t e ENS Event
05:00 Oct 2, 2018
Title	Agreement State Report - Damaged Radiography Source
Event Description	The following was received via email from the State of Texas: On October 3, 2018, the Agency [Texas Department of State Health Services] was notified by the licensee's radiation safety officer (RSO) that one of their radiography crews had reported they could not retract a 22 Curie Iridium-192 source into a SPEC 150 exposure device. The crew was working at a remote job site [in Carrizo Springs, TX]. The exposure device was sitting on a pipe rack. During an exposure (not the first one) the device fell off the pipe rack, hitting the guide tube, and crimping the tube to a point where the source could not be retracted back into the device. The crew contacted the RSO and a retrieval team was sent to the location. The source was positioned in the collimator and covered with bags of lead shot. The retrieval team was able to cut the protective coating off of the guide tube and, using a pair of pliers, reshape the guide tube until the source could be retracted to the fully locked position. No member of the general public received an exposure from this event. The highest dose received by an individual responding to this event was 40 millirem. Texas Incident: I-9616

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Where
Desert Ndt Llc Abilene, Texas (NRC Region 4)
License number:	L06462
Organization:	Texas Dept Of State Health Services
Reporting

Agreement State
Time - Person (Reporting Time:+34.18 h1.424 days <br />0.203 weeks <br />0.0468 months <br />)
Opened:	Art Tucker 15:11 Oct 3, 2018
NRC Officer:	Phil Natividad
Last Updated:	Oct 3, 2018
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