ML20137E351
| ML20137E351 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 12/13/1985 |
| From: | AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| References | |
| FOIA-85-59 NUDOCS 8601170235 | |
| Download: ML20137E351 (9) | |
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{ 19 little more experience and I worked out in tho' field n 20 actually pullin'g the cable that I had routed. 21 .Well, I think it needs to be said. When I was i 22"i working'. in thu.e l' ectr.l ca l' depa'r tme n t, they. told. me. that l 23)the quali y control cable, the Q cable was not to be i 24 ( spliced. In the cabic..spr. cad room onc day,.we were 5[pullin'g--well, i t, wa,s 's e ve r,a 1 o cc' a s io n s -- de p oll.e d 2 over } N ^LdERSON RIPORTING C;OMPANY. INC., ~ [ .8601170235 851213 .h O *. * *:^.. " PDR FOIA ..., g a,a g.u :r;&, e' 3:s a w w..m a o _ - 4-canoe 8s-s, enn
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1. i 4 And I knew that the Q cable was not to be ~ 5. j .g spliced. -lg 6 Several weeks later oc -a week later, in fact, i-n 7 it was four days later, I went back to that location to
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Now, this happened two times that I know of i and it is located in the cable spread room below the control 3 i d 12 z room No. 1. o S"' 13 Other instances,which I have some papers.. l u s i l 14' Later, I transferred into the drafting a 4 e 4 = n l 15 department because that's where I felt I'was more qualifigi. i ,4 16 I had at that time, four years in drafting. I had been d as s N I7 h a Planner-Scheduler for another company that I had worked 4 4 .= 5 { 18 1 g for. I felt I was more qualified in the drafting I-i 4 1: .\\ g 'IT department, so,.therefore, I started work there. 20 f I was immediate'y put on the. Brown & Root' hanger l 21 . lo ca tiort s y.known'as the BRHL's. I.was'.given isometr.ic 'i t. ~ ~.. 22 l drawirigs. add-asked td locate ',. or given.a' pa'c'kag'e of-i i j
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y. \\ s , l'l l. l. The ' hangers were. in' corpora ted by myse.lf and 24 - a.- s group.that.worke.d with'me.on. l 25 the*BHRL's. j t m j,.., ,3 . r.. ,... * '...... '...,..... AL.DEASON. R.E.PO.Ri}N.G.CO..M,..P..A.NYANC. t 1 yi..,.. n: r*.. ~ :..
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) -'~ 5553 i_ }. , 3. s '. *..[ '. f ~ ~ '., 2 y;. 1 LatOr!.' wa-wdro c'cko'd and" I.hcd :allitt1*o Shoot'. ~ ~ . 2.k of paper. noting that I;should go back and estimate the -l fdistan'ce 3 between the BHRL's. I.have some copies -
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4 to show, if anybody wants to take a'look at it here. l I t = 5 I was asked to.go b'ack and get some footage K 3 6l. estimates between these locations. = i i n \\ 7 I am not an enginedr. I h~ ave never claimed 1 j 8 8 to be an engineer.. I have never done any structural d d 9 testing before., I was asked to put in the footage between ,z o 10 each one of these hangers, to estimate it. z 1 II l About a week later, - 'by the way, these were .i U. j g 12 not approved or anyth,ing, but a week later these were all g
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13 -i s s'u e d t o the field. u l l 14 My group and I was concernqd that these, hangers u E 15 or these BRHL's were issued'to the field and we went Sut u l a: l g 16 in the field to check it and we' found, measured, looked it i d { t" 17 % all over, that they were incorporating our hangers in the E I 18 li. c
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,u e 1 = I9 l g To my knowledge, the pap'ers weite not reviewed g-n j 20 by anyone,else. I~went and talked to my supervisor'about l' - 9 ( 21 t h i s., number one. 4 I \\ ,+ I'.
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~ Number two; I asked him.,why these papers,we're j 23 4 -iss'ued., 3 in the field without any other information give'rt to 1 s - 24 ! hs, without these being checked.or otherwise noted. j, 'I q'ues'tioned this on several.occas, ions.and. the. t 25 l },', .c,,, Ai[OE NSO.N.RE O. NTING'COMi'A Y. INC.. '. ~ ~ I y.. x.. '. '0 '., : i'., ,a, !..'
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.,.....,w-0 . \\ 5554,. .:. ~ group al's'o ' quo.ctioned 'it and wa war'o told to just do whab' 1 I L -N 2 (we had. Take all the information we had and' just keep on 3 going. x 4 Like I said, I'm a I'm ~ 7c g 5 stiudying Business. an.d also have a double; najor i.n n? f6 ; Engineering. I stayed up last night until la te. - In fact, "o 7 I think I had only about three hour's of sleep. Maybe that 's n 3 8 why everything's going like it is.right now. t d ~ d 9 2, Did you all have any other' questions or O s H 10 g anything? I'd be very glad to answer them. 5 II I'm sorry that -- 3 fI JUDGE M. ILLER.: Thank you, ~ a- ..~ d 13 g Let me explain.to you that the Board is taking-m e 14 g evidence in. a trial type pr'oceeding. Now, we're glad to c o 15 b have limited appearance statements, such as those given by r. 16 g yourself. as t-{ 17 It would not be appropriate for us to ask C
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-s ~ g 19 any lack of courtesy. We appreciate your coming. I n \\ 20 Your remarks and your statements will 'be made i 21 a part of.our record and given consideration to that extent. 22-s 23 j j 24 I t, - t 25 g t. b~ jl:~~ ALDERSON. REP,ORTING COMPANY.INC,, ..n..u. .= +"*~#""W N.Liil-~ = A c ===a,rm~ ' -
" ' f. T ~" 'f!* - ~~ .n ~ - 5555 23-1 I'; fool thio,io tho, pbimbry rocc0. y hm this 7,came here, because:I felt this was a. problem, and thing'ought to be checked by somebody. It may have been. 3 i i checked. ~ 4 At the time that I.left the plant and other e-S.- ~ 3 f6rther conversations with friends of mine o r. "a c - = 6 e .q'uaintan ce s that work at the plant, these have not been R 7 E .c.h..an.ge.d.. g 8 N 9 . T,his is the only reason'-- This is the i -R 10 reason = why; I.'ra here today. Oz j jj Thank you very much, gentlemen. <3 - :. J.U DG. E. MI LLE R : ,To the extent that these d 12 7 x E 13 matt.ers c o..n c e r.n. i.s s u e s that are controverted matters in u ,a = E 14 this. proceeding., they will be given appropriate considera-u y 15 u tion;by. Applicants.and Staff.. o = i 16 Thank.you,. sir. 3 c5 g d; = 8 E 18 J = t i-19 S n 20 - 21 I .22 l g g 23 - - 24 f, 25. [ . * ? ['.,., ALDERSON REP'O'R'I'ING COMPANY, INC. ~. s. i I titMth$% 5tW% M '8 W Y Y
p* 555G WRITTEN S'TATEMENT p I i i OF { r. 1 ~ ~ My name i I live at 4 ~ g 5 N I I sta'rt.ed work a t Comanche Peak on October 18, d 6!, g i 1979 as a planner-scheduler. (Previously I had experience 0. 7 J in planning-scheduling, drafting and consturction work.) f 8 c.5 I quit.in June of 1980 in opder to go back to school. d 9 I worked,as a planner-scheduler for about g 10 four months, then I worked in the electrical department. Q 11
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?, 12 I routed cable, then to gain more experience, pulled the o z (- E cable that I had routed on a cable-pulling crew. I y 13 t. worked in the field as an' electrician for four weeks. 5, 14 U When I'was out in the field, we pulled two cables that 1S w 5, were later spliced by another crew approximately an 16 g d 800'+ pull and another pull which was approximately the t 17 x E same length which was Q (quality-control) cable. The re. 18 E location of the spliced Q cable was in the cable-spread 19 89 room. (The reason that I know that this cable was later spliced is that a few days later I went, back and ' checked g l-it and found that it had been spliced.) I did report 22 l tihis to Mr. Smith in the department 'tihat took the 23 24.! cable pull runs, and he told me not to worry about it; t i 3; .that it w a.s not my depart'ent ahy longer (in other words, m e ?- 1 2'A ,,.LDERSON REPORTING C,OMP,ANY INC.. i ~ ~' t+ l#<.<.m.e - mmme s _ x,m m,Je.--sssAm-eaxewv,
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} 5557 ~ .c. ~I'know froo. \\ o f '.~tha accignmnnt. had' been. fin'iphod)'. 23-3 part 1 l l working in the electrical de,partment that O cable was not 4 .to be spliced that it was supposed to.be a single. pull. relay panel in the control This cable was going to a ~ = -5 ~ 1. room n6mber l S-From working'in the. field I transferred to l2 6 the drafting department because that's where I was more n_. 7 A;_ qualified. I.was given approximate *(on a sheet of paper) E-8' n N locations;where. hangers (pipe hanger supports) were to be a. 9-p h un g", and I was told to incorporate them into -isometric j0 cc 7 9=> 11: pipe: drawings known as BRHL (Brown and Root Hanger Loca- &2 jp tions.). After the'first drawings (rev 0), drawings were E i ( hj2 returned to myself and others in my group (I was.in [ 3 2: ~ jy , charge of the drafting. group drawing the locations.) E: C' 15i5 'I was told in a note to esti. mate footage between each-g~: s Q: ~ hanger and incorporate it into the drawing. I note m'. .5 that I am not a qualified engineer nor carry the ex- $g l 37 ; E 18 perience or knowledge of knowing where to properly locate r U' the hangers and supports. I informed my group leader and 19 Ei n 2y then relayed to my drdfting supervisor that I was 2i unable to estimate locations without visually iftspecting 3 ,l 22 the iteni -in the ' field to an engineer's structural survey' fl 1 23 ! and that'I had no other means of locating 'the hangers j i 24 ; except by. . g u.e s swo rk. I also informed the drafting super-i. 25 j visor that my group also ' felt the same way. We were p. I A'LDERSOt4 RERDRTING C6MP'AN, Y?lNC/ ~ ~ ~ N' s .z~-
5558 2 ~ 12 4 told to go.chend and do tho'. bas t with wha ti? we ' ve -got.. I o believe~that this was an inadequate estimation that' 2 we were not qualifi'ed-nor"had the proper in f orma tion 3 l to incorporate the lianger footage locations. I wasn't ~. e v a r told tha't an engineer or structural d'esign s uppo rt. 1 5 c. 5 engineer would review any of these drawings drawings C f l which were actually given to the construction field n 7 E 8 supervisors to be installed. n _. q. 8 j Fearing that, I'went out in the field with 9 j 0 10 several.gf my co--work'ers and saw that the Brown and Root oz 11 hanger locations were actually being constructed to the E 6 12 specifications of our Rev ls ' ( B RHL 's). I was shocked.. z (. h13 I went to a coo.rdinator and reported the-mistakes that 7 m E 14 they were making in using our d.rawings as the basis for xb 15 actual supports. 'We went to the drafting supervisor and xe 16 reported the problem t'o him and he said, " Don't worry about B v. h' 17 5 it it's none of your business." Ile also said that r: 2 g E 18 1 they had already been checked -- but he didn't say by = t-l " '19 who. l En 20 That's the primary reason that I am here today 1 21 to inform the Board of-this situation. From the informa- ~
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I visually saw in the f i e l' d, I strongly believe 23 g what f 24 j that,if all of the material that w'a s issued by me and my 25 ;- s'upport group was never checked by an engineer. or qualified ~ OERSON F3EfPO.RTING COMPAN'Y. INC.'.'
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r-=- i 4 ' '.' - ' 5559 23--5 1 porg nn 1, that thin io a'.. major design prob'le'm that niust i be checked. I definitely. feel that the safety of the plant 2 l is jeopardized.by.these', supports. j 3 I've brought some drawings today. This one-4 =. 5 has been constructed, but was never approved before it g 4 6 was constructed. I went out in.the field about a e= 7 week or so later and saw that it was up. g ~ If the Board wants to Rnow more about B-t- a g cs 9 these serious matters, I would be willing to testify to i R 10 them. o n... d 12 z (. ad.13 m g a Ey.14..-::t-.: : .1 - :. s e o 15 ue -g s g a5 h~ 17 r: l e i N 18 l i: 19 8 n 20 21 22 23, i 1 1 24 # c. 25.i s ,l ..h. A L.D ERSO.N 'R E'POR TI N G.CO M P A N )*,1.N C.. ~ .c 3 m;.s,- e ^-
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