Licensee Name and
NRC Action Number | Action Type
(Severity) &
Civil Penalty
(if any | Date | Description |
Oakwood Hospital - Annapolis Center, MI
EA-11-010 | NOV
(SL III) | 03/04/2011 | On March 4, 2011, the NRC issued a Notice of Violation to Oakwood Hospital – Annapolis Center for a Severity Level III problem involving: (1) the licensee's usage of a dose that differed from the prescribed dose by more than 20 percent which is contrary to 10 CFR 35.63(d); and (2) the failure to verify that the assayed dosage was within 10 percent of the prescribed activity as required by License Condition 15.A. Specifically, the licensee administered approximately 124.5 millicuries of sodium pertechnetate technetium-99m (Tc-99m) to a patient instead of the prescribed dosage of 10 millicuries of Tc-99m tetrofosmin, a difference in excess of 20 percent. The licensee failed to verify that it had the correct syringe which resulted in the incorrect radiopharmaceutical and dosage being administered to the patient. |
Ohio State University (The), OH
EA-99-175 | NOV
(SL III) | 10/07/1999 | Violation involving the release of a patient who had been administered radiopharmaceuticals without ensuring that the total effective dose equivalent to any other individual exposed to the patient was below required limits. |
Ohio State University (The), OH
EA-97-258 | NOVCP
(SL II)
$13,000 | 10/23/1997 | Willful failure to conduct inventories and dispose of waste. Breakdown in control of licensed program. |
Ohio Valley Medical Center, OH
EA-09-182 | NOV
(SL III) | 9/17/2009 | On September 17, 2009, the NRC issued a Notice of Violation to Ohio Valley Medical Center for a Severity Level III violation involving the failure to meet the physical presence requirements of 10 CFR 35.615(f)(2) during high dose radiation (HDR) treatments. Specifically, on June 17, 2009 and other occasions prior to that date, neither an authorized user (AU), nor a physician under the supervision of an AU and trained in the operation and emergency response for the unit, were physically present during continuation of HDR treatments. |
Oklahoma State University, OK
EA-00-203 | NOV
(SL III) | 12/07/2000 | On December 7, 2000, a Notice of Violation was issued for a Severity Level III violation associated with the use of licensed material (tritiated thymadine) in an unapproved and unauthorized location. |
Oklahoma, University of, OK
EA-96-049 | NOVCP
(SL III)
$ 2,500 | 06/17/1996 | Deliberate failure to secure licensed material. |
Omnitron International, TX
EA-96-061 | NOV
(SL III) | 06/21/1996 | Failed to file for reciprocity prior to conducting licensed activities in Oklahoma, a non-agreement state. |
Oncology Institute of Greater Lafayette, IN
EA-07-313 | NOV
(SL III) | 03/31/2008 | On March 31, 2008, a Notice of Violation was issued for a Severity Level III problem. The violations involved the failure to instruct an Authorized Medical Physicist, a supervised individual, in the licensee's written directive procedures with respect to the use of byproduct material and failure to develop, implement and maintain written directive procedures to provide high confidence that each administration was in accordance with the written directive. Specifically, the licensee did not verify before treatment that the treatment plan was properly input into the high dose rate remote afterloader unit and did not verify, after treatment, that the step size, a treatment parameter used for the treatments, was in agreement with the treatment plan. A medical event occurred during the licensee's administration of three treatment fractions to a patient. As a result, portions of the treatment site received a total dose that differed from the prescribed dose by more than 20 percent. |
Ontonagon County Road Commission
Ontonagon, Michigan
EA-16-135 | NOV
(SL III) | 09/26/2016 | On September 26, 2016, the NRC issued a Notice of Violation to Ontonagon County Road Commission for a Severity Level III violation. The violation involved the failure to use a minimum of two independent physical controls that form tangible barriers to secure portable gauges from unauthorized removal when the portable gauges were not under the control and constant surveillance of the licensee as required by 10 CFR 30.34(i). Specifically, as of June 14, 2016, the licensee secured portable gauges with only a single physical barrier during business hours. The gauges were not under the control and constant surveillance of the licensee. |
Overhoff Technology Corporation, OH
EA-96-242 | NOVCP
(SL III)
$ 2,500 | 04/16/1998 | Distribution of quantities in excess of "license" limit. |
| Withdrawal | 08/19/1998 |
Overlook Hospital, NJ
EA-97-246 | NOVCP
(SL III)
$ 2,750 | 08/21/1997 | Deliberate misadministration. |
Owensby and Kritikos, Inc., LA
EA-11-100 | NOV
(SL III) | 06/08/2011 | On June 8, 2011, the NRC issued a Notice of Violation to the Owensby and Kritikos, Inc., for a Severity Level III violation involving the licensee's failure to control and maintain constant surveillance of the licensed material in an unrestricted area as required by 10 CFR 20.1801 and 20.1802. Specifically, during inspection on July 29, 2010, the radiography camera was found on the floor of the unlocked darkroom and no radiography personnel were maintaining constant surveillance over the material. |