Day 086 - 09 Feb 95 - Page 13
1 A. I am sorry, I am having a problem with explaining
2 myself today. If a restaurant machine was broken, they
3 would borrow another one from another store, so it would be
4 brought into that store.
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6 MR. MORRIS: Sometimes they would take the material to be
7 cleaned to another store; instead of borrowing their
8 machine they might go to the other store themselves?
9 A. No.
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11 Q. Would that concern you if they did have to do that?
12 A. I think -- no, I do not think there is any particular,
13 anything particularly dangerous in taking dirty equipment
14 in a car from one restaurant to another and cleaning it and
15 bringing it back, but I have never known that happen.
16 I think it is more logical to take the piece of equipment
17 that is doing the cleaning from a place to where the dirty
18 things are and clean it there, but I think it is a
19 hypothetical question. It is just referring to fat
20 filtering machines.
21
22 Q. Would it concern you if an insulated plastic handle on a
23 fat filtering machine or, indeed, any other electrical
24 equipment was missing?
25 A. I do not think it would unduly concern me. That is
26 because -- I am not sure by inference if you are thinking
27 it is something to do with electrocution that is there. My
28 belief is that it is because of temperature, like on the
29 toaster handle we have insulation on there.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just to help you along, I think the
32 suggestion may be that it is about 18 inches long and an
33 insulated plastic handle; does that ring any bells to you?
34 A. If I am supposed to be thinking about a fat filtering
35 machine, I cannot think of an insulated plastic handle on
36 it.
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38 MR. MORRIS: An 18 inch?
39 A. The problem is there are a number of fat filtering
40 machines. I am not familiar with all of them.
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42 Q. I believe it was a relatively old type.
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44 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us suppose that ---
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46 MR. MORRIS: Whether that helps, I do not know.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- this machine should have had one and did
49 not, would that concern you?
50 A. If a fat filtering machine did not have an insulating
51 handle where it should have had -- from my understanding
52 now, it would not concern me. I would assume that was to
53 do with heat transference from it. So, it would be a
54 source of concern that the metal beneath it may be hotter
55 but nothing -----
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57 MR. MORRIS: Sorry, is it a matter of concern to you or not?
58 A. A matter of minor concern.
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60 Q. Minor concern. If it is found out that in the opinion of a
