Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 66
1 Q. Do you remember that being a problem in May 1993 which is
2 the date of this rap session?
3 A. I cannot say I remember it being a problem, but I
4 remember over a long period of time while I was there it
5 always seemed to be a problem because it just never seemed
6 to be fixed properly.
7
8 Q. Right.
9
10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause. What is the complaint about
11 that?
12 A. Well, it was always done in a bodged job way. In the
13 statements other people made they said it would be easy to
14 weld it.
15
16 Q. How did it adversely affect things, if it was like that?
17 What is your complaint from that point of view?
18 A. Well, for a start, when you are removing it, the thing
19 can fall out, so it can fall on the floor and drip grease
20 everywhere; (2) there was a split along one edge of it
21 where it had a razor sharp edge and I have cut myself on it
22 twice when you are removing it, and the actual ledge that
23 it is held on can just collapse, because it was normally --
24 I have seen it fixed with time cards before, which are
25 little strips of metal we used to put on the burgers to
26 tell us that they have been there, they have been in the
27 bin 10 minutes, but these were used, bent and used, and
28 riveted to hold this metal thing together.
29
30 But I mentioned it because it never seemed to get fixed.
31 There was always a bodge job done on it and they could have
32 just bought another part. You know, it probably would have
33 cost less to buy another part initially than to keep
34 repairing it because the repairs just did not work. The
35 repairs were never -- they were either not done or they
36 just did not have any effect on it. It was broken almost
37 straightaway afterwards. That is why they, I think, in
38 three rap sessions in a row -----
39
40 Q. I just wanted to know what the adverse consequences of it
41 were ---
42 A. Right, yes.
43
44 Q. -- that you were saying.
45
46 MS. STEEL: Right.
47
48 THE WITNESS: There would be grease on the floor, basically ---
49
50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, I have made a note of that.
51 A. -- which is understandably dangerous.
52
53 MS. STEEL: On page 212 -- actually, this is only two months
54 later; I do not know whether it matters so much because of
55 the short distance of time -- under "Kitchen and back
56 room", it is "Bar between grills is broken", this is on the
57 second line, "difficult to pull out; leaks from under the
58 centre island are dangerous".
59 A. I think that refers to something separate, the leaks
60 under centre island refers to something separate.
