On 9/11/2019 [Acuren Inspection in Billings Montana] shipped a camera to
QSA Global for disposal, the exposure device serial number is D3869 source serial number 83052G.
Acuren has not received the receiving report from QSA. The (RSO) contacted the common carrier on Monday September 16, 2019, the common carrier initiated a search for the missing package and have not been able to find it. The last place it was scanned in was at the common carrier's facility in Memphis TN, on 9/12/2019 at 12:41AM."
The source is a 30 Curie iridium 192 source.
The licensee notified Region IV Materials (Erickson).
Notified DHS SWO, DOE Ops Center, FEMA Ops Center, DHS NICC, USDA Ops Center, EPA EOC, FDA EOC, FEMA NWC, DHS Nuclear SSA, FEMA NRCC SASC, DNDO-JAC.
- * * UPDATE ON 09/20/19 AT 1045 EDT FROM JEREMY SCHREINER TO OSSY FONT VIA PHONE * * *
The licensee notified the NRC that the common carrier located the package in Memphis, TN. The Shippers Declaration papers were ripped off. The common carrier states that the package will be delivered to Baton Rouge, LA today, 09/20/19.
Notified R4DO (Taylor), IR MOC (Grant), DHS SWO, DOE Ops Center, FEMA Ops Center, DHS NICC, USDA Ops Center, EPA EOC, FDA EOC, FEMA NWC, DHS Nuclear SSA, FEMA NRCC SASC, DNDO-JAC, and ILTAB, NMSS (Williams), NMSS Events, INES (via email), CNSC(Canada via email).
THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "CATEGORY 2" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
Category 2 sources, if not safely managed or securely protected, could cause permanent injury to a person who handled them, or were otherwise in contact with them, for a short time (minutes to hours). It could possibly be fatal to be close to this amount of unshielded radioactive material for a period of hours to days. These sources are typically used in practices such as industrial gamma radiography, high dose rate
brachytherapy and medium dose rate
brachytherapy. For additional information go to
http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1227_web.pdf