Sample Violations
2nd Quarter; Arlington Office; Severity Level III
The registrant failed to perform the following quality control item, at the correct time interval in violation of TRCR 37.10(a)(2): darkroom cleaning — daily
Mammography Violation - Arlington Office - 2nd quarter 1997
Violation of TRCR 37.10(a)(2)(viii)
The registrant failed to perform the screen-film contact and screen artifact detection at correct time intervals.
Mammography Violation - Arlington Office - 2nd quarter 1997
Violation of TRCR 37.10(a)(1) 37.10(a)(2) 37.10(a)(3)
The registrant failed to maintain all darkroom fog and screen-film contact records of the quality assurance monitoring program for a one year period.
Mammography Violation - Arlington Office - 2nd quarter 1997
Violation of TRCR 37.10(a)(6)(ii)
Nuclear Medicine Violation - Arlington Office - 1st quarter 1997
Violation of TRCR 21.906(b)(1)
The Licensee failed to wipe each incoming package of Ir-192 seeds contained in ribbon for contamination or leakage. (The Ir-192 sources are not distributed by the manufacturer in special form)
Nuclear Medicine Violation - Arlington Office - 1st quarter 1997
Violation of TRCR 21.1101(c)
There were no receipt records available to verify that the authorized models of Ir-192 and Cs-137 sources were the types being utilized for patient treatments.
Nuclear Medicine Violation - Tyler Office - 2nd quarter 1997
Violation of TRCR 11.4
Records documenting the receipt of all licensed sources of radiation were not maintained for inspection by the Agency.
Nuclear Medicine Violation - Tyler Office - 2nd quarter 1997
Violation of TRCR 11.7(d)
Records of required leak testing were insufficient to verify that sealed sources of radioactive material were leak tested at intervals not to exceed six months.
Mammography Violations Arlington 4th quarter 1996
Mammography Arlington 2nd quarter 1997
For items listed below, Q.C. records/charts were present but reflected that the listed tests were not conducted at the proper frequency. (Fixer Retention Analysis)
Mammography Arlington 1st quarter 1997
The registrant failed to ensure the annual evaluation of the entire mammography system was performed at the correct time interval, in violation of TRCR 37.10(a)(2).
The supervising physician failed to perform the following, in violation of TRCR 37.10(c)(1):
review the technologists’ quality control test results quarterly
4th quarter 1996 : Tyler Inspector: RAM (Nuclear Medicine)
1. Violation of License Condition:
