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     1        uncovered drain in the trash room".  Is that something that
     2        is quite normal, that there is an uncovered drain?
     3        A.  Normally they have a grid on the top of them.
     4
     5   Q.   I think that is all I wanted to ask on that particular
     6        except for -- I looked at Gloria Saul accidents?
     7        A.  Yes, she seemed to have recorded quite a few.
     8
     9   Q.   Nineteen -- Mr. Rampton was absolutely right.
    10
    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is strange, if you look through, she
    12        appeared in two adjacent entries. On AAF Kevin Bellfall
    13        appears twice in succession, and on an earlier occasion you
    14        have the same person appearing twice in succession.
    15        Whether they develop a taste for accidents or a taste for
    16        the accident book I do not know, but it does happen with
    17        different crew members.
    18
    19   MR. MORRIS:  Maybe crew members, from time to time, remember to
    20        report accidents and at other times they forget to report
    21        accidents?
    22        A.  As I said before, I am sure that, looking at this
    23        accident book there would have been other minor accidents
    24        that have not been put in.
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  There was always the person at school who
    27        stepped off the wall bars, forgetting he was six feet off
    28        the floor.   You do get people like that.  It could be for
    29        any number of reasons.
    30        A.  It is really, the outcome of an accident is luck, you
    31        know, whether it is just a small injury or something a
    32        little more serious.  It is really down to luck and ----
    33
    34   MR. MORRIS:  When you looked through, did you notice the Gloria
    35        Saul entries?
    36        A.  I did notice them.
    37
    38   Q.   You noticed them.  You said that she was fairly diligent,
    39        she seemed to be diligent in reporting her accidents.  Did
    40        you notice her experience might be a fairly typical
    41        worker's experience at McDonald's, with a truthful
    42        reporting of it.
    43        A.  I think if you work out the numbers, if you are saying
    44        the average is about 100 a year per store, and the average
    45        number of employees is somewhere between 50 and 80, then
    46        you would expect an employee to have a minor accident book
    47        injury, something like a small cut or a small bruise, once
    48        or twice a year.  I think Gloria's, over the term of book,
    49        probably works out about two per year, but there is no way
    50        of telling whether she is a little more prone than most 
    51        people to have accidents. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  She had three in the first six months of
    54        1992.  None of this is any comment against her.  It is bad
    55        luck.
    56        A.  If you do have accidents -- we have talking averages
    57        now -- I am sure the likelihood is you could have two
    58        quite close together and then not have one for a very long
    59        time.
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