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Deposition of Hf Gunn on 840801 in Glen Rose,Tx.Pp 75,000- 75,008
ML20095C180
Person / Time
Site: Comanche Peak  Luminant icon.png
Issue date: 08/01/1984
From: Gunn H
BROWN & ROOT, INC. (SUBS. OF HALLIBURTON CO.), TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC CO. (TU ELECTRIC)
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' NUCLEAR REGULATORY' COMMISSION 2- .

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-3 BEFORE.THE ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSINDUBOARD 4

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In the matter of:  :  ! j { ([pl,S..

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Station, Units 1 and 2).  :

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10 Room 46 11 Glen Rose Motor Inn Glen Rose, Texas 12 ,

August 1, 1984 13 , ,

f 14 Deposition of: HOUSTON'FLOYD GUNN 1s called for examination by counsel for Applicants, 16 taken before Margaret Schneider, Court Reporter, -

17 beginning at 10:47 a.m. , pursuant to agreement.

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2 For the Applicants, Texas Utilities Electric Company, et al:

3 McNEILL NATKINS, ESQUIRE 4 Bishop, Liberman, Cook, Purcell & Reynolds 1200 Seventeenth Street, Northwest 5 Washington, D. C. 20036 6 For the Deponent, Houston Floyd Gunn, Personally:

7 R. JEFFREY COPPOCK, ESQUIRE Vinson & Elkins 8 First City Tower Houston, Texas 77002 9

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3 MR. WATKINS: Good morning.

4 My name.is McNeill Watkins, counsel for the 5 Applicants in this proceeding.

6 This is the deposition of Houston Gunn.

7 Applicants will take Mr. Gunn's deposition as part of an 8 offer of proof that t.4ey will make to the Board in this 9 proceeding.

. 10 Because this deposition involves an offer i 11 of proof, his examination will consist solely of questions j i

12 asked by the Applicant. I 13 Mr. Coppoc,,k, would you like to identify i

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I 15 MR. COPPOCK: Yes.

16 My name is Jeff Coppock. I'm with the law 17 firm of Vinson & Elkins in Houston. I'm here today l

14 representing Mr. Houston Gunn, who is a Brown & Root employee:.

18 For purposes of the record, I'd like to

- # note that Mr. Gunn is appearing here voluntarily and.is 21 not under subpoena.

4 22 Whereupon, 23 HOUSTON FLOYD GUNN H- the deponent, having first been duly sworn, was examined 25 and-testified upon his oath as follows:

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3 Q. Mr. Gunn, would you state your full name, r

4 please?

8 A. Houston Floyd Gunn.

8 Q. By whom are you employed?

7 A. Brown & Root.

8 Q. Where are you employed?

9 A. Comanche Peak Steam Electric.

10 Q. Are you a certified QC inspector?

11 A. Yes. <

12 Q. Are you a protective coating inspector?

13 A. Yes..

14 Q. Where do you work as a protective coating 18 inspector?

18 A. I work at the paint fab shop.

17 Q. How long have you been assigned as a QC 18 inspector in the paint fab shop?

19 A. Seven years in October.

20 Q. Do you remember Robert Hamilton at the timo 21 that he was employed at Comanche Peak?

22 A. Yes.

23 Q. Do you, remember Joe Krolak at the time he 24 was employed at Comanche Peak?  !

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1 Q. Do you remember Sherman Shelton at the time 2 that he was employed at Comanche Peak?

3 A. Yes.

4 Q. Do you recall the day on which those three a gentlemen were terminated?

6 A. Yes, sir.

7 Q. What is your understanding of the reason a for which they were terminated?

9 A. For refusing to make an inspection. r to Q. Do you know where the location'of the inspec-11 tion was that they refused to perform?

12 A. It was Reactor Building 2, a rotating 13 platform rail. ,

14 Q. Mr. Gunn, on that day did any of your super-15 visors direct you to perform an inspection in Reactor to Building 2 at or around the rotating access platform rail?

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A. No, sir.

18 Q. How can you be so sure?

19 A. Well, the main reason is I have a phobia 20 of heights, and I found out when I first came to work there 21 that I couldn't work a't extreme height. I went to manage-22 ment and told them what the condition was and offered to 25 resign.

L 24 Q. How did you discover that you had this fear as of heights?

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3 Q._ When you were first_on the job?

4- A. About the first -- About the second month 3 I worked there,.yes. <

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7 dropped, and I was tied off to a safety line with my safety a belt. When it did, well, it kind of hung me up in the e basket and everything. Then they had.to take somebody to up on the platform that they had the basket extended from 11 and pull the cable back up manually to get me loose, to i

ut got me back down, and -- ,

is Q. Did,you.have to be helped down?

A 14 A. Well, I was -- I was in an extremely nervous 1

Hl state, and it was, you know, kind of weak in the knees, HI so to say, you know, frightened or whatever, but --

r 17- Q. Mr. Gunn, did your superiors accept your 18 offer to resign at that time?

HP A. No, sir. The main reason actually I was 30 hired anyway was to write our QCs, QCIs and our procedures, t l g

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I was up there they had to have a full-time employee there, 2 and they told me that, you know, that I could have that 3 job, that I didn't ha'ce to work in the reactor building 4 or climb any heights.

5 Q. After you were initially assigned to the 6 paint fab shop, Mr. Gunn, did you perform any field 7 inspections?

8 A. No, sir. I did one Saturday work in 9- Reactor Building 1, 905 elevation, but it was on the floor.

10 I did not climb or get off the floor at any time.

11 Q. And is that the only field inspection that 12 you have performed during your period in the paint fab 13 shop? ,

14 A. After the first two months, yes, sir.

15 On the day that Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Shelton, Q.

- 16 and Mr. Krolak were terminated, how many QC coating 17 inspectors were there at Comanche Peak?

18 A. Ongoing or backfit?

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inspectors worked on the day shift at that_ time?

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A. There fere four on days and two on nights.

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Q. Who were Sh -four'that worked days?

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> "2. -Q. .So_you were the only other inspector on 3 .the. day shift,at that time?

4 A. Yes, sir.

5. Q. -Who were the two night shift OC inspectors?

6' A. Joe Fazi and Bill Dunham.

7; MR. WATKINS: Mr. Coppock, do you have any 8 iguestions?

9. MR. COPPOCK: No, I do not.

10 MR. WATKINS: That concludes Mr. Gunn's "11- testimony.

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CERTIFICATE OF PROCEEDINGS 1

This is to certify that the attached proceedings before the i 2 ,

NRC COMMISSION 3ii In the matter of: TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC COMPANY, etall 4 ,(Deponent: Houston Floyd Gunn)

Date of Proceeding: August 1, 1984 5 '

! Place of Proceeding: Glen Rose, Texas l 6  !

were held as herein appears, and that this is the original  !

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transcript for the file of the Commission. i 8 i Margaret K. Schneider 10 Official Reporter - Typed ,

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