# NRC CAL – NOV (SL III)
> **EA-11-016** · CAL · Severity SLIII · Issued 2011-04-20 · Materials Licensees
## Action
- **EA Number:** EA-11-016
- **Licensee:** NOV (SL III)
- **Category:** Materials Licensees
- **Action type:** CAL
- **Severity level:** SLIII
- **Date issued:** 2011-04-20
## Description

On April 20, 2011, the NRC issued a Notice of Violation to the Community Hospitals of Indiana for a Severity Level III violation involving the failure to fully implement procedures to provide high confidence that a brachytherapy treatment was in accordance with the written directive as required by 10 CFR 35.41(a). Specifically, on September 30, 2010, an authorized medical physicist missed a step in the procedure that established the starting position for the high dose remote afterloader brachytherapy treatment. The failure to implement this step resulted in a medical event.

## Source
- [Full enforcement letter (PDF)](https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1111/ML111110825.pdf)
- [NRC Materials Licensees index](https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/enforcement/actions/materials/)
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