RE: Wearing Radium-Dial Watches - Hazards?

["Neil, David M" <neildm@id.doe.gov>]

A co-worker once suffered considerable injury to his dignity due to one.
He slipped it into his pocket for a controlled area entry without being
careful to orient it with the crystal in as he usually did, and lost his
pants to an aggressive female rad tech before the cause of the frisker
alarm occurred to him.

I have noted several people on this group who probably recall who I'm
referring to. :-)

Dave Neil
neildm@id.doe.gov

On Friday, February 05, 1999 1:42 PM, Sandy Perle
[SMTP:sandyfl@earthlink.net] wrote:
> > Is anyone aware of documented injuries attributed to wearing a watch
with
> > radium-painted hands? 
> 
> Ron,
> 
> I have been wearing a watch with radium painted hands and face for 
> over 15 years, without issue. The watch has been in the family for 
> over 50 years.
> 
> personal note:  great talking with you at the ALARA symposium.
> 
> Sandy Perle
> E-Mail: sandyfl@earthlink.net 
> Personal Website: http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/1205
> 
> "The object of opening the mind, as of opening 
> the mouth, is to close it again on something solid"
>               - G. K. Chesterton -
>
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