ENS Event | |
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12:45 Sep 9, 2004 | |
| Title | Missouri Dept. of Transportation Pickup Truck Carrying a Troxler Gauge Was Involved in an Accident. |
| Event Description | At 0745 CDT a Missouri Department of transportation pickup truck carrying a Troxler model # 3430 moisture density gauge was involved in an accident. The Troxler gauge was within it case locked inside a metal locked box bolted to the bed of the pickup truck. The open bed pickup truck was traveling on Route E, located between Leeton and 23rd highway in Johnson county, when it was side swiped by another vehicle. The pickup truck slid down the side of a hill. The front quarter panel of the truck was damaged and the truck's side mirror was knocked off. The occupants of the pickup truck got out of the truck and went to the back of the truck, opened the locked metal box and observed that the Troxler moisture density gauge was still in its container undamaged. The Troxler gauge contains 0.3 Gigabecquerels (GBq) of cesium-137 and 1.48 Gigabecquerels (GBq) of americium-241/Be. Nobody was injured in the accident. |
| Where | |
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| Missouri Dept Of Transportation Leeton, Missouri (NRC Region 3) | |
| Organization: | Missouri Dept. Of Transportation |
| Reporting | |
| Information Only | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+-2.35 h-0.0979 days <br />-0.014 weeks <br />-0.00322 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Gary Butterworth 10:24 Sep 9, 2004 |
| NRC Officer: | John Mackinnon |
| Last Updated: | Sep 9, 2004 |
| 41030 - NRC Website | |
Missouri Dept Of Transportation with Information Only | |
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[Table view]Information Only Missouri Dept. of Transportation Pickup Truck Carrying a Troxler Gauge Was Involved in an Accident. 2004-09-09T12:45:00 | |