Re: Skin sensitive individual

["Roy Craft" <rcraft@wcnet.net>]

As a Shift HP in 1955, one of our shift's best mechanic ( outside the Rad
Area ) was very sensitive to radiation exposure.  He recognized the effect,
and didn't try to hide it.  He would break out in sweats and turn red, which
developed into a rash.   The last time that I remember him scheduled to go
into a contaminated area with a rubber acid suit on, he flexed his muscles
and ripped the suit down the back,

Did I mention that he was VERY  large. Not fat.

Roy C. Craft, CHP
rcraft@wcnet.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Tad Blanchard <Tad.M.Blanchard.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 2:37 PM
Subject: RE: Skin sensitive individual


>I have seen, first hand, where an individual broke out in a rash when he
entered our Cobalt-60 panoramic irradiator room.  He was there to remove
some cement block which was stored beneath a false floor in the room.
Background radiation is all that was present.
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>He had been briefed by the irradiator operators that no radiation (above
background) was present in the area he had to work in.
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>After talking with the individual, we determined that his "anxiety" from
seeing all the CAUTION RADIATION signs, may have caused the rash.  We also
reassured him that the radiation in the room could not have caused the rash.
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