STATEMENTS AND NOTES FROM INTERVIEWS OF WITNESSES

DECEPTION OF ANNEX 3

According to an interviewed witness, Annex 3 is a building that is connected to Warehouse 3.  Annex 3 is used for storing highly explosive materials.  Only GS rated or electrical forklifts are allowed inside Annex 3.  The same kind of highly explosive materials are stored in Warehouse 3. The only difference in the highly explosive materials being stored in Warehouse 3 and the highly explosive materials being stored in Annex 3 is that exports are stored in Warehouse 3, while domestic products are stored in Annex 3, and that gas operated forklifts (not GS rated) are used in Warehouse 3.

ToxiRea Monitors Work Too Good

An interviewed witness saw 6 new ToxiRae personal monitors in Nicky Thomas’s office sometime between June 9 and June 14, 2004.  He tells me that he asked Nicky Thomas, a few times, about when he planned to let employees use these ToxiRae monitors. The last time the interviewed witness asked Nicky Thomas about these monitors was on July 8, 2004. Nicky told the interviewed witness that these monitors needed to be calibrated.

The interviewed witness says that he knew that Nicky wasn’t telling the truth about calibrating the ToxiRae monitors, because he had opened one of the cases, and had read the certificate of calibration.  The certificate says, "This instrument has been calibrated using calibration gases procedures which are traceable to N.I.S.T. Test and calibration data is on file with the manufacturer.

John Henry and others who work with the interviewed witness told him that on July 9, 2004, while he was having a day off, Nicky Thomas gave them ToxiRae monitors to use in the Cylinder Prep Area, and in the Cylinder Fill Area of Packaging and Shipping.  They said that these monitors worked great!  They wouldn’t stop "going off."  So Nicky Thomas said that they needed to be re-calibrated, and took them back into his office.

On July 19, 2004, R. Dan Redmond, GLCC-Central Site Manager, sent out a memo explaining to employees that they "knew there was a possibility that the ToxiRae monitors would pick up other organics in addition to Methyl Bromide.

On July 22, 2004, interviewed witness asked Nicky Thomas if the "Methyl Bromide Drager Tubes" would detect the chemicals in the coatings they were using in the Cylinder Prep Area. Nicky said, "NO. But you are welcome to contact the Safety Department."

On July 26, 2004, Nicky Thomas said, "The gas monitors are making us look bad. They pick up deodorant, and after-shave."

On July 27, 2004, the interviewed witness asked Jim Smith, who works in the Safety Department, if there was a "Drager Tube" designed to pick up the chemicals in the coatings used in the Cylinder Prep Area.  Jim told the interviewed witness that there was a "Drager Tube" that would work for monitoring the chemicals in the coatings used at the Cylinder Prep Area, but he couldn’t remember the name of it.  Then he told the interviewed witness that he had talked with a hygienists in Baton Rouge who would be coming up here to conduct air tests the Cylinder Prep Area.  The interviewed witness told Jim that he wanted to be there when the hygienists was conducting these tests.

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