FedEx looking for radioactive package lost in Tennessee
FedEx could learn today [Friday] what happened to a package containing radioactive materials that went missing a day before.
The company said it is searching in the Tennessee area and that the item is safe as long as nobody tampers with the protective packaging around it.
The item is a cylinder containing rods used for hospital machinery that were being sent to a person in Knoxville, Tennessee, said Sandra Munoz, a company spokeswoman. “The rods are used for quality control calibration,” Munoz said. “We have lots of experience in handling this kind of shipment.”
Munoz said the company may learn more Friday morning when two employees who handled the shipment return to work.
Uh, no one swiped the bar code in transit?
My experience, memory of screw-ups like this – unfortunately – usually ends in tragedy. Often, someone walked off with the radioactive marker source, putting themselves and their families at serious risk.
Phew! They found it. It had been double-boxed and the outer box with shipping info went to the destination. The inner box containing the radioactive rod inside a protective tube – was left aside because of no shipping info – in a FedEx terminal in Knoxville, Tennessee.
