ML062790452
| ML062790452 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Point Beach  |
| Issue date: | 06/06/2002 |
| From: | - No Known Affiliation, NRC/OI |
| To: | |
| References | |
| 3-2002-004, FOIA/PA-2006-0113 | |
| Download: ML062790452 (8) | |
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j ,--was interviewed by 01 on June 6. 200 enied that anyone raised fitness for dutyto hirm abouuntil approximately December 2001, which was afte had left the site because the job was completed (pp. 23-28).[I'm assuming th the CI]both reported FFD concerns to investigator that he Iso denied to the investigator The Cl indicates that he and s veral workers "quit" because they did not like thewaya itiis werj naged at the site. Wdicated that he had problems wit Jj an A@L~n, itcme time for the layoff, which was several weeks earlier than any o n e" ad planned had responsibility for hiring and laying off (pp. 17-23, 38-42).On Monday, August 5 Ir terviewing 0011 .o. 11-15-01), L.o. 11-17-01)," (1.o. 11-03-01) a4 "' .o. 8-3-01 by DZ, then hired by licensee).
This information on the dates of lay a obt ned from Day Zimmerman.
There was no indication anyone "quitL It appears tha as told he would be considered for I ,-Servci Is on General Foreman, the position that the licens e rejuesteor.
oJItherefore could have some animosity toward..*Information in this record Wag deleted in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, exemptions "2_.01 C 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INVESTIGATIONS INTERVIEW--------------------
x IN THE MATTER OF: INTERVIEW OF 4.9*-------7-------X Point Beach Nuclear Power Plant* Room 113, Engineering Building 6612 Nuclear Road Two Rivers, Wisconsin 54241 Thursday; June 6, 2002 The above-entitled interview was conducted at 11:23 a.m.BEFORE: MARY KAY FAHEY Special Agent (202) 234-"33 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 23 1 unhappy about something, but the fitters never, you 2 *know, came and sat.down in your office and would 3 talk to you one-on-one and say.there was a problem.4 They'd -- it was like they were trying to get even 5 with people.6 SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Okay. And for the 7 record,. Hal Walker is who?8 MR From my understanding, Hal 9 Walker was an investigator that was hired by the NMC 10 to check into some of the things that were going on.1! SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Okay. *Did anyone.12 raise fitness-for-duty concerns to you about 13 14 No.15 SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Did you tellwai 16, 9"l' recently that some of the workers had?.18 and I talked'after all this- stuff'started happening, 19 and I said that there was an issue about his fitness 20 for duty.21 SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Okay. Did you 22 identify anybody specifically?
23 I didn't -- I didn't know.24 because nothing has been told to me about the names.25 SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Okay.- And when did NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 24 you have that conversation, after December of 2001?MR. Yes.SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Okay. Was --MR Basically afterfl go`611was gone.SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Okay. Did you ever discuss fitness-for-duty concerns abou with Day & Zimmerman management?'
MR Just after we started having the meetings.
I had -- I had mentioned to them what was going on. There was a fitness-for-duty issue and that's what it was about.SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Okay. And'after--
MR It was after the fact.SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: After December?.
MR. SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Okay.didn't work for us anymore and after I had talked to Hal Walker and I was told that.there was an issue.Otherwise, I knew of no problem.SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Okay. And were you aware that an issue was raised about your fitness for duty?MR .Yes.NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701
-:ý-C-(202) 234-4433 www.nealrgross.com 25 1 SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY:. Okay. And how do 2 you know'that?
3 MR.A Darlene Peters and I think 4 it was Cheryl Andrews was in the meeting with her, 5 and they were asking me questions because my badge-6 was put on admin hold while there was more 7 investigating going on back in, gosh, I'm going to 8 say February, sometime around then, my badge was put 9 on admin hold for ten days while they investigated 10 some more. and Hal Walker came in and then one of 11 the last days Darlene had called me into the office 12 and, like I said, I believe it was Cheryl Andrews 13 was in there as a. witness writing stuff down, and 14 they brought up, I thought it was them, that they 15 -brought up that they had even questioned my fitness 16 for duty, and they had gone on to-ask me, you know, 17 how bften I drank and stuff like that, and I had to 18 chuckle to a certain extent because,.likeI had said 19 earlier about the issues, just when one issue fails, 20 something else seems to pop up, and I'm -- a lot of 21 people know me and I go to-the gym at night and I go 22 to the gym right after work. I stop at home, get my 23 bag. I don't go out very often.24 SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Okay. Arid were you 25 ultimately badged?NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ii 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26-R. Yes.SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Okay. So the first you heard about it was when you went to work at Point Beach?.Yes.SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: That was. in February of 2002. Okay. So nobody ever questioned you while you worked at Kewaunee --MR. Oh, no.SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: -- and said that they thought you were unfit?No.SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Nobody requested you to go be tested?MR.I iNo.SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Nobody in Day &Zimmerman management ever questioned you?MR.1 -NO.SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Okay. So, basically the whole fitness-for-duty concern'thing never came up while you were employed at Kewaunee?No.SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Okay. It was all after the fact?MR., Yes.NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.02) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005.3701 www.nealrgross.com (2
27 1 SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY:. Okay. Let's-talk.... t Iagain. Did you ever smell 3 alcohol on him?4 MR. No.5 SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Okay. Did you ever 6 see any other indications that he was unfit for 7 duty?8 MR No.9 SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Slurring of his.10 speech or unsteady on his feet?1MR..12 SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Okay. And you said 13 earlier he checked in irith you pretty much every 14 morning for a period of time or the whole time?15 MR. I Basically the whole outage.16 My trailer, my office, .and we had a trailer set up 17 right inside the security parameter where everybody 18 would badge through the gate, our trailer was right.19 inside that area. ould walk into the 20 trailer, pop his head in my office, and give me a 21 little wave "I'm here" and then he would let me know 22 if he needed anything..
23 SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Okay.- .Let's go off 24 the record for a minute.25 (Discussion held off the record.)NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 28 SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: We're back on. All right. And you said he would give you a wave just acknowledging that he was present for the day?MR. Yes, just to let me know he was there.SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Do you recall him missing any work time?MR. No.SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: How many people worked do you know, or under him?MR. It varied. You know, once in a while it was nobody and sometimes I would say maybe he'd have, you know, a dozen or a couple more than a dozen. Sometimes if he needed scaffold built, carpenters would work for him and laborers, and then, like I said, sometimes he'd have to have insulation removed off pipe so some insulators might remove insulation and then the pipe fitters would have to buff the pipe for inspection.
SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Generally are employees hesitant to report a co-worker as being unfit?MR. Can you repeat that?SPECIAL AGENT FAHEY: Generally are employees hesitant to report a co-worker as unfit?NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.(202) 24-4433 WASHINGTON.
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