On September 2, 2005, a Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $3,250 was issued for a Severity Level III violation involving the failure to control and maintain constant surveillance of iodine-125 in a controlled area. Specifically, a cartridge containing iodine-125 seeds was transferred to an unauthorized and untrained licensee employee who subsequently transferred the cartridge to a second unauthorized and untrained licensee employee who opened the cartridge and inadvertently lost control of some of the seeds.