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1 operations manual clearly states that they compile accident
2 statistics, and that is the operation manual that is
3 produced in the US and distributed, as far as we can see,
4 worldwide.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Where does your understanding come from?
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8 MR. MORRIS: You may remember it was brought up earlier on when
9 we questioned Mr. Preston I think. It was referred to in
10 the operations manual on a chart showing the most
11 common ----
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Why do you not wait and see what is in this
14 letter and then, if you are saying, that is all very well
15 but it is inconsistent with this document or that document,
16 you can tell me about it. Apart from anything else, if you
17 get the British statistics you may be able to see to what
18 extent they advance the matter one way or another. All the
19 most reputable companies unhappily suffer the misfortune of
20 accidents to their employees. What you want to know is
21 whether out of a workforce of 31,000 there are hundreds or
22 thousands of people having accidents every year, or whether
23 there are just a few hundred each year, as there must be in
24 almost any large corporation in the country.
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26 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I suggest is wait until you get the
29 English ones and wait until you get this letter, and you
30 can come back in relation to that. What I am anxious not
31 to do, and I think I have been pretty candid about this, is
32 set McDonald's an enormous literally paper-chase across,
33 what is it now, 51 States for a purpose which may not help
34 much one way or the other. So rather than jump into doing
35 that or, conversely, jump into saying, no, I do not think
36 it is worth it, I would like to see what the information
37 is.
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39 MS. STEEL: Moving back on to slaughter of animals, Keith
40 Kenny's appendix is down by mistake. It was something
41 I wanted to check with Dave. He misunderstood what I had
42 said and put it down on the list. So we can forget that.
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44 MR. JUSTICE BELL: So I can cross that out.
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46 MS. STEEL: Neville Gregory.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Remind me about that.
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50 MS. STEEL: Well, there were a few points. I cannot remember
51 what they were. I am sure there is more than one. I have
52 found one example anyway of where I asked him about whether
53 he made notes about something. He said he would go back
54 and look and that he would send the information on. There
55 is one example which is on Day 20 which is 28th July. On
56 page 31 right at the bottom it says:
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58 "You cannot remember the length of time between stunning
59 and neck cutting? No. This is information which I will
60 send back to the court when I return to Bristol tomorrow.
