1. Person burned to death. I was on the emergency response team. 2. I told management we need to come in early to set up a pump of a tank full of strontium. The management would be useless watchers as we set up. Management said no come in regular time in July in TN and we would be pumping in a containment hut. Well since it was so hot for safety we had to do the final hook up with 4 different people doing 15 minute jumps. Would you know that it did not get hooked up right( should have been a one person job done in the morning) The line broke off the flange and sprayed strontium 90 all around the containment. Fortunately no one was in there. ( I was also scolded about the containment but w as grudgingly allowed to put it up.)
3. A company I was checking I told to change their RWP because it was poorly written and should have at least 3 things, Current conditions, hold points and a final survey. Well I get called later. They tell me a employee walked into their office and set off a frisker. ( He is now in TN but has shipped waste from SC) I was told that there was a 100 mr an hr hot spot in SC in a hospital. Old Cesium sources were crushed ( did not fit the right pig so they just smashed them in another pig, Unfortunately (Old) they disintegrated. Crapping up the hospital, the person (yes internally also) and container, Then crap up the vehicle while driving then crap up his house, then crap up his facility, This cost them in fines and clean up. They said from now on they will survey a facility they leave and have a person watch them survey to insure it was not crapped up. Also state conditions and hold points, Nice.
4. Numerous incidents, a boat trailer was crapped up with cesium found at a scrap yard, 20 mr/hr contact. Brass at a scrap yard with radioactive zinc and cobalt. Copper with Radioactive cobalt and silver. 100 R an hour contact radium source found at a bridal shop that was put in backwards in the pig, ( Fully exposed not shielded) (Nasopharyngeal source) doctor died years ago and no one knew what it was, Funny a spit bottle reading 200 mr/hr contact from I-131 thyroid ablation, Last 2 found by a fellow HP.