ML20082H326
| ML20082H326 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 11/27/1983 |
| From: | Harrell F Citizens Association for Sound Energy |
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| NUDOCS 8312010107 | |
| Download: ML20082H326 (4) | |
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AFFIDAVIT OF FREDDY R. HARRELL Q:
Please state your name and address for the record.
A: My name is Freddy R. Harrell. My address is P. O. Box 146, Dennis, Texas 76037.
Q:
Are you aware of any instances of intimidation, harassment, or threatening of employees at Comanche Peak?
A:
Yes.
Q: Are you aware of any instances of employees being discouraged from doing work right to begin with at Comanche Peak?
A: Yes.
Q:
In your opinion, have such instances of intimidation, harassment, threatening, or discouragement had an effect on morale of employees at the plant?
A:
Yes.
Q:
In your opinion, have such instances of intimidation, harassment, threatening, or discouragement had a detrimental effect on the quality of work at Comanche Peak?
A:
Yes.
Q:
If so,.what effects have they had?
A: The gold hats and foremen are not the type of people they should have on such an important job. The employees see this every day and they talk among themselves about them. That is a morale factor.
If people have good morale, they are more concerned with their work. At Comanche Peak, they don't seem to care about the employees.
If you don't have a man who really cares pu2nurauajh C
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I used to dread just going down that cattle chute to get my brass.
I think the morale at Comanche Peak is lousy.
Q:
Can you give us some specific examples of intimidation, etc.?
A:
I was laid off on a Thursday. They made me go home and finally sent me to the doctor after I told them I was going to the doctor, and he confirmed that I had a hernia because I'd picked up some pipe fittings out of a gang box at work. Thursday, April 7,1983, is the day I was laid off.
I was hurt Tuesday; I went into the hospital Thursday, and was in the hospital following an operation when I found out I had been laid off.
I think I was laid off mostly due to the statement I made to TUGC0's QA man, Antonio Vega, that I'd overheard the statement that Buck Hill had made to Lester about the V
weld they made a duplicate card on, where he told Lester they would make a duplicate card and no one would know if Lester would keep his mouth shut about it.
This was after I had been identified as a CASE witness.
I definitely think that Roy Combs was laid off because he had been identified as a CASE witness.
It was just a matter of time before they laid off Lester; they were watching him like a hawk.
I believe he would have been in the next layoff if he hadn't quit before then; they would probably have made a layoff for him if he hadn't.
Q:
Are there any other instances of intimidation, etc.?
Everybody got a 'ittle slip of paper after Lester and Roy had talked A:
l to Antonio Vega (and I believe after I had talked to him) saying that if you did not tell Brown & Root about any discrepancies you knew about before O
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.. O you talked to anybody else, you would be teminated. They might as well have said " Don't talk to CASE or the tRC first or you'll be teminated." Tha t's the way I interpretted it.
-Q: Are there specific problems in construction or design at Comanche Peak of which you are aware which you believe icurrently exist (which have not, as far as you know, been put into the process to be corrected) to which you could take the Licensing Board and show them? And would you be willing to?
A:
Yes. Welding rods used out of procedure.
Q:
Do you think the Licensing Board would be able to see such deficiencies with the naked eye, or would any additional testing be necessary to prove that such deficiencies exist (and if so, what kind of testing would be required)?
Ai They should be able to see the documentation on it and trace it back.
Q: Why should the Licensing Board be concerned about such intimidation, harassment, or threatening or discouragement of employees, or such deficiencies as you may tell them about or show them at Comanche Peak? What's the bottom line as far as the safety of the plant is concerned?
A: They need to get some gold hats and foremen there who know what they are doing.
I believe that's important to the safety of the plant because.how' can they tell you what's right and wrong when they don't even know what they're doing.
For instance, it's pretty bad when you have a gold hat that can't even
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read isometric drawings (as is the cose at Comanche Peak).
Q:
Do you want to t'estify regarding these matters in the operating license. hearings for Comanche Peak?
A: Yes if something will be done to make the plant safe.
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I have read the foregoing affidavit, which was prepared under my personal direction, and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
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, known to me to be the person whose nr.le is subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the purposes therein expressed.
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