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.

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