ML20202B281
| ML20202B281 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 11/22/1983 |
| From: | Bradley Jones AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| References | |
| FOIA-85-59 NUDOCS 8607100266 | |
| Download: ML20202B281 (3) | |
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{{#Wiki_filter:. STATEMEtiT OF Billy Ray JONES / l I, Billy Ray JONES, hereby make the following voluntary statement to H. Brooks GRIFFIN, who has identified himself to me as a'n Investigator with the U.S. I Nuclear Regulatory Commisssion. I make this statement freely, with no threats ] or promises of reward having been made to me. l } was employed as a Brown. & Root structural ironworker at the Comanche Peak j Steam Electric Station (CPSES) from September 1976 until June 1933, My foreman I l on my hanger crew war Robert MESSERLY. 1 I remember one occasion in which MESSERLY instructed me to cut a 45' be.yM i ccmpletely arcund a piece on a large hanger using )a cu"i ; torch on elevation SE j (m /2.2. I de not remember when I made this cut ^ yAe
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'.4-- v;.: c ; ;;. 4 / i I do not specifically remember the location or hangeFn[6ev,yde ds/cw G 555. cut I could identify the hanger if I went back to the site. i j After MESSERLY left his job at CPSES, Charles NEAGLE took over as foreman of my s j crew. I remember NEAGLE instructed me to make cuts using a torch on one of the large hangers en elevation 885. I remember the hanger needed to be beveled. Again I de not recall the specific locytion or identification of the bancer, but I could find'it if I went on site. ,MI' d 2# fe *
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M N 'b f Gerald LEMXE took ovffr s foreman for tiEAGLE, and I remember LEMKE instructed me 4,.r.(the 5 % e g< < 4 m) to make a cut on a hanger on elevation SS5 on a " kicker" for a full penetratien n ) l 8607100266 860630 PDR FOIA GARDESS-59 PDR _.--,,.c ,,, - - ~ - c .v.- ,..-_--_,_m_. _.._.-_~...m._ ,_...,,r_,
h b; --~c welc. I remember Raymond HEASERT was the superintencent Et that tire,'and he was aware of the work we bere doing. I remember that tvo, unchions' on elevation 835 near tne stairs were cut with 8 ted' t.uS torches too deep,1negne cuts e built back up using we!cing mate-ial then I e~'-remember the identification of the I crqund~ jf,k.down and smoothed. y $ l odf-00S C7. < a.o d MS100Y~009C72)P }> Y ' ~-- 01'a 'UaY rr~y s stencn' ions & the time when these cuts were mace. I made Sonny RINER, the superintpc'ent, aware of these cuts before I lef t my employment with Brown & 2 N' Z '*" U SE*" d' A C /'U T,#' Root. / l'o c ~. f e c-{ %e e X c esythe 9 90 y.t[y .4 s were ere Icq:ff", n,/~.Wy er- .D w I was made foreman over ti=;: crew, I also instructed my crew to make cuts on hangers using a torch. This was a regular practice by the crews, because altering a hanger using a grinder took too Icng. When I was the
- foreman, Larr.v DONUHUE was my general foreman and Ronnie JOHNSON was my superintsMgW'!.t &er
, and they both knew we regularly nade " field" cuts on hangers b u hex : L~er kcol G r %r-ly 9d %berb ' using torches.g V.2 also used torches to heat pieces of hengers so tney cculd be bent to fit properly. I rememcer there were specific precedures restricti'.,c the amount of heat we could a? ply to bend a hanger piece. Allgg Most of members of my crew used torches on hangers as cccasiens recu,4 red. 4 o r,~.a[(,0 of the cuts I made on hangers using a torch were " field" cuts. ~': :': n :. :s 1 1: W ....-hangers that w5re to be cut down or removed were to be cut out using a grinder. Irecallthat"tracktorches"wereusedtomakepO*frationsof al cas ee.f it ia 7% Se le/. hangers in the " fab" shco, but I w.so .... f.. a,,,. a e ca. ecall that m. superintendents, HEASERT and DEAN, crdered saddles on certain hangers heated and corto-pcwer hydrolic jacks used to bend thefqstal to make it fit. ' do not exe c ? i m -. ~*s h5i n M - (m <yse specifically remember the identification of these hangersqr the time whicn this was done.
I ~' ' ~ 1 } I do not know if all the cuts made on these large hangers on elevation' 885 were authorized. I am not personally aware of any Component Modification Cards (CMCs) or Design Change Authorizations (DCAs) authoriz.ing these cuts, but they i w may have been authorized. I' knew they were allowed to alter the hangersIin"the*" i " fab" shop by procedure, but I did not know if it was allowed in the field. i l j Following my interview with Investigator GRIFFIN on the subject of intimidati n earlier in 1983, I was quizzed by a general foreman, e.C/wero! NoWord b
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- u w,... -......:.;.. ; c r i 4 H-I believe the Brown & Root employees were placed under pressure by Brown & Root management by this practice. I also believe that Stanley j WILLIAP.50", a former Scrwn & Root employee l was threatened with-termina ber+ faesseriyM. \\ gBrown&Rootsucervisc9andlatequithisfobandmovedtoHouston. l I >^ --- s ' rcreder- % +Ged w o o e s t- +ke e^ t ' ' Uv ' ?*? /*' "' A * * ' h *'Y!* o.. S: :.r....a.. ....,.....a..... e when the incident ' ' " ~ h..... l k do occurred. ,vo i 1 i i I have read the foregoing statement consisting of 3 typed pages. I have made I and intiialed any necessary corrections and have signed my name in ink in ' he t margins of each page. I swear that the foreg0ing statement is truce and I correct. Signed November 22, 1983. / l Billy Ray Jones i l l l Subscribed and sworn before me this 22nd day of November 1983 in Granbury, i Texas. fhh Y H. Brooks Gr 1 \\ i
= J:%' 4 yo 4s eZe l N .vMTtt sT Aitt NUCLE AR REGUL ATORY COW.*.ISS10N f., i., w J i U.S. i'.RQ.mct or nvtsuce.uce.s sa.t c u a a co. n J. '.. - C-ff m ms.ua omt s um n,. s ^ " * ' * ^ " jf,. [33 $[P l2 /d ll: 1I ,g J ,.r-r-[Waigi,A5}!STA! ICE TO liiSPECT10h REPORT 4t/ " SUPPLEMENTAL" ~- ' 7,p~g7p"e September 7,1983 "7, ~ SUBJECi: C0.ANCHE PEAV. STEAM ELECTRIC STAT!0!i: alt.EGED IMPROPEE C0riSTRU~ TION FRA;Tl:ES RE 0~T h'JGER: Aa-23-005 7. e is g s # Daring the course of an unrelated investigatior., information was receivec, from h-an indivicual who requested confidentiality, that 6 former Brown & Root, Inc., miilwr.ight r,ad drilled. holes.through rebar without the required engineering
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... autgi24.tj rf.. E. On Scotemoer 1, 1983, tnis mi11 wright wat interviewcd and provided information - whereir.nestatedhe*possibly,neriJie.dgholesthroughrebart irita concrete floor witnout a Co ocnent Modification Card (CM:) or a Desian Chance Authorization (D A). He upiained that he crilled about 10 holes in January 1983 while. instaliing 21 metal plates using a core drill. He said these metal plates ware used it secure the trolley tracks located in the Fue1* Handling Euilding es part of tne Waste Monitor System. He stated tnat he and his crew used a core criil berroned from the Core Drilling Crew. The millwright saic that the holes tract with the core orill were locatec on the southa'est corr.e. of the trolley tracks. He explained that the blueprints he usec authori:ed tne ct.tting cf one piece of rebar on each hole, ecc ne adced tr.at it is his bel 4f ins reies were orilled properly. 1. ine kes.uits of Interview with tne fonaer Bror.n & Roc. ciliwright is r.tintainec in 01 FiC d Office, Region IV. Attachment (*.) - Results of Interview with millwright, detec' Septentier 1,1983. REPORTED BY: . h,,'. I
- h. P ooks Griffiri, g vestigator 01 Field Office Region IV lDl$Q
_' "' v v APPkO'.'ED Ei: Ricnaro K. lierr.. Director 0 Field Office Region IV cc:/ W. J. Waro, Ol:DF0 w/attacnment P. C. Baci, 01:DF0 w/ettachn.ent J. T. Collins, Plv w/ attachment
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