Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed In Death At ANO

Entergy-Arkansas NuclearOne

That is what i thought. The state of management was dismal in ANO and it questions if even one plant should have been started up.

Everything about the NRC activities was to withhold information from the public in the timeframe after the event...get at least one plant up and operating before the knowlege of the management dysfuction was publically known.

Submitted by THV 11 News Staff

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013, 5:55pm

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (KTHV) - The family of a man killed after a machinery accident at Nuclear One on March 31 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

The accident happened when a piece of machinery weighing 600 tons fell and killed 24-year-old Wade Walters. At least five other people were injured in the accident.

The suit states, "This is an action for wrongful death, ordinary negligence, negligent hiring, negligent training, negligent supervision, negligent retention, negligent hiring of an independent contractor, for declaratory judgment, and for punitive damages, stemming from multiple incidents of recklessness and negligence that lead to the collapse of an industrial crane on Easter Sunday, 2013, killing Wade Walters."

he suit, which was filed July 2 in Polk County Circuit Court, is filed against the following entities:

• Bigge Power Constructors
• Bigge Crane and Rigging Co.
• Bigge Group, Inc.
• Siemens Energy, Inc.
• DP Engineering, Inc.
• Entergy Arkansas, Inc.
• Entergy Operations, Inc.
• John Doe 1, John Doe 2, John Doe 3

The suit is being brought by the Estate of Wade Walters by Susan Allen, Administratrix of his estate and Walters' mother.  

Walters was employed by Precision Surveillance Corporation, which was contracted by Entergy Arkansas, Inc. and/or Entergy Operations, Inc. and/or Siemens Energy, Inc.

According to the suit, Entergy had scheduled downtime with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to remove the Main Turbine Generator Stator. If the process was not completed in the time agreed upon, Entergy would be fined. When Entergy tried to get the company they regularly use to move the Stator, the company said they couldn't do it safely in the time frame allowed; other companies concurred. Entergy eventually found a company who would perform the duty and opened Bigge was the lowest bidder, according to the suit.

If what the lawyers say is accurate, this means some of the agency’s important actions go on in a undocumented manner. I find it preposterous this would occur in a federal agency. I don’t believe the agency disclosed this in their investigation.

"If the process was not completed in the time agreed upon, Entergy would be fined."