ML20214C130
| ML20214C130 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Braidwood  |
| Issue date: | 08/12/1986 |
| From: | Holley AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| References | |
| OL-A-112, NUDOCS 8705200562 | |
| Download: ML20214C130 (8) | |
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Did Mr. DeWald ever threaten you with
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any penalty, any punishment, any reprisal, termination in the 1
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inspections per day?
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No.
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All right.
Are you aware of any situation where any
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particular number of inspections per day?
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No.
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@ l2 you aware of any harassment or intimidation by any constock f
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Other than the Rick yder in no.
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And that is the Rick Snyder/Saklak incident?
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Yes.
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All right.
We will return to that.
Are you aware
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any "20 harassment or retalitory treatment such as threats of violence because of your expressions of quality or safety concerns?
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No.
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Are you aware of any verbal abuse, either of
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expression of quality or safety concerns?
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No.
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Are you aware of anyone who was terminated as an 6
employee because of his or her expression of quality or safety
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Yes.
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Who was terminated because of his or her y,
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A Mr. Worley Puckett.
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And what leads you to believe that he was terminated 3
because of his expression of quality or safety concerns?
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To the best of my knowledge, he wrote a NCR on 1;
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And apparently the management didn't like e
! 16 how he worded it or something to that effect.
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! 17 everything I'm saying is just hearsay, okay.
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All right.
I appreciate that.
That was going to be 19 my next question.
20 You had no personal knowledge of the NCR which 81 Mr. Puckett may or may not have issued, do you?
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Q Do you have any personal knowledge of the conditions i
under which Mr. Puckett's employment with Comstock ceased?
A No, just one day I showed up and he wasn't there.
He had got fired.
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so any information that you have is merely hearsay (6
or rumor.
You have no personal knowledge?
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No personal knowledge, nothing in writing.
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Okay. - You have never been given any access to any
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No.
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You were never any party to any conversation that i
i2 any supervisors may have had regarding Mr. Puckett's i
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All right.
You were not a party to any --
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No.
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-- official --
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No.
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No, nothing official.
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Yes, exactly.
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Other than what you have just said, in response to 4
my question about Mr. Puckett, are you aware of the h)$
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No.
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Did you personally ever work with Mr. Puckett?
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Yes.
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Can you describe what the nature of that work with t
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Mr. Puckett was assigned as a Level 3 welding inspector or engineer, or whatever you want to call it, and he 24 was to help out with the welding procedure and any problems 15 thac might have arised.
And the only work that I did with him 16 was help him do a littic bit of research of the procedures, t7 especially when he first got there.
,e Me, along with several other inspectors, just showed 9
him, you know, the procedures and helped him get along with 3
it.
And if he had any specific questions about the company's interpretations, just how we would help any new hire.
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Did he spend a lot of time with him in that regard?
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No.
Maybe a total of twenty or thirty hours, but
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all.
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Ch, yes.
He was always full of questions.
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Did you generally have answers for him 7
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A No.
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Do you know whether Mr. Puckett was ever certified 1
,11 as a Level 3 inspector by comstock at Braidwood?
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I don't know whether he was ever certified or not.
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Did you ever go to Mr. Puckett and ask him questions 14 about procedures?
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Not about procedures, about -- I would ask him, you
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I l18 So, =e along with many other people asked him 19 general knowledge about welding, not specifically about our 20 own procedures.
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And did he generally have answers for you?
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Most of the time, yes.
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Q Are you aware of the assignment to any person, any i s I 75 Comstock employee, to perform burdensome or menial special d f f6 projects because of his or her expression of quality or safety
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No.
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All right.
Let's turn now to the incident you 10 referred to before, the Rick Snyder/ Rick Saklak incident.
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A Well, I wasn't present when it happened but from talking with other individuals, and including Mr. Snyder,
'14 Mr. Saklak apparently said some threatening remark because he 15 didn't want to sign off a specific document.'
'6 He thought it 37 was not the correct procedure in signing it off, something to i<
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1 Okay. You did not observe the discussion between i
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I wasn't aware of that --
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-- until several hours later.
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It sometimes takes me a little while to get them
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f32 had regarding Mr. Saklak's request or demand to Mr. Snyder to
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Yes, it is.
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You didn't ask him specific questions about Comstock
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Comstock?
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No.
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All right. So you don't know -- or, can you tell me, 6
was he familiar with comstock procedures?
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After he had been there for a month, and all he did i
was sit and read the procedures I would imagine he was very
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Q Did you ever have occasion to ask him any questions about Comstock procedures?
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Q So, you are just speculating right now; is that correct?
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Q Are you aware of the transfer of any Comstock employee to an undesirable job because of his or her hli expression of quality or safety concerns?
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No.
Q Okay. Are you aware of the transfer of any comstock I
I employee -- by that I mean Comstock QC inspector -- or other employee to work in an area where quality deficiencies could
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