Day 168 - 03 Oct 95 - Page 56
1 sentence.
2 A. About 15, I suppose 20 at the most, including the two
3 grill side freezers, yes, about 20, I would say.
4
5 Q. Pieces of equipment?
6 A. In the kitchen that would have to be unplugged and
7 plugged back in.
8
9 Q. What did you add then?
10 A. If you include the two grill side freezers as well,
11 they would have to be unplugged and everything would have
12 to be plugged back in again and reset.
13
14 Q. How long would all that take when you had to do that?
15 A. About 10 minutes.
16
17 Q. To?
18 A. Unplug everything back in again, yes.
19
20 Q. Press the button and plug everything back in again?
21 A. That is right.
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23 MR. MORRIS: You cannot remember ever calling out any firm to
24 fix a chicken vat that had a problem separate from the RCD
25 problem that you had?
26 A. I did not say that. What I said was it is impossible
27 for the gas -- you put to me the question that was the gas
28 to one particular chicken vat a problem and I said, no. I
29 have regularly called out service companies to service all
30 of the vats, but they would -- and those problems can be
31 completely separate from the RCD.
32
33 Q. Was there a problem with one particular chicken vat that
34 required service?
35 A. There was for a while a problem with the control board
36 on one of the particular chicken vats, yes.
37
38 Q. Which led to it -- I do not know if the right word is
39 tripping out, but it led to it having -----
40 A. Well, it led to the vat not being able to work, so that
41 particular vat out of the five was not working -- out of
42 the six, sorry, was not working.
43
44 Q. Right. That was a particularly recurrent problem with that
45 vat?
46 A. It was.
47
48 Q. Over a long period of time?
49 A. Six to eight months.
50
51 Q. Moving on to Jagon Flint -- sorry, let me check my notes on
52 the previous -- Michael Logan says in his statement that
53 regarding the chicken vats that this problem had lasted,
54 say, six to eight months. This was something that was
55 recurring how often -- daily?
56 A. Not daily. You might have a problem with the vat on,
57 perhaps, a fortnightly basis.
58
59 Q. He says here: "The vats were continually being repaired by
60 service engineers approximately once every month or two";
