Re: OSHA X-ray/Accelerator Inspections

["Jim Ogden" <James.Ogden@tdh.state.tx.us>]

Several years ago, we in Texas had a report of an OSHA inspector 
inspecting a facility on the second floor of a building that was 
using x-ray equipment.  Some other occupant of the building 
complained of illness and pointed the OSHA inspector to the office on 
the second floor.  

Supposedly the inspector inspected the medical x-ray facility and 
cited them for failure to have an exhaust fan in the room with their 
x-ray equipment.  The exhaust fan was "cited" as a means to "evacuate 
the room of x-rays remaining after an x-ray exposure."

We could not find the specific x-ray facility nor confirm that 
an OSHA inspector, had performed such an inspection.  However, this 
was a story that circulated in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area during 1994 
or 1995.

Thanks,


James H. Ogden, Jr., Emergency Planner
WIPP Transportation Project
INTERNET Address (james.ogden@tdh.state.tx.us)
(512) 834-6688 ext 2016
(512) 834-6654 FAX


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