Reports
For OTHEA, incidents reports are selected on the basis of the value of sharing the lessons learned. Therefore, a broad variety of incidents may be included: not just incidents and accidents, but also any situation, event, behaviour or anomaly with the potential to cause an unplanned radiation exposure, or a significant decrease in the existing standard of radiation protection. This could include “near misses”, contamination spills (whether people wer exposed or not) as well as more serious radiological incidents.
OTHEA does not include nuclear, or nuclear-related, incidents.
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Irradiation of three people during maintenance of an accelerator  |
6 April 2005 |
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Exposure due to a mobile freight fluoroscopy device |
6 April 2005 |
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Deterministic effects to worker’s hand during unauthorised density gauge disassembly |
6 April 2005 |
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Contamination of persons and equipment by damaged level gauge source in food factory |
6 April 2005 |
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Incident during gamma radiography – failure to retract the source between shots |
6 April 2005 |
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Incident during the retraction of a gamma NDT source |
6 April 2005 |
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Incident involving radiation injury from gamma NDT source exchange |
6 April 2005 |
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Brachytherapy – Loss of an iridium wire (Report No. 2) |
6 April 2005 |
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Brachytherapy – Loss of an iridium wire (Report No. 1) |
6 April 2005 |
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Detached source with automated gamma NDT exposure equipment |
14 February 2005 |