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Sunday, October 18, 2026
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A very tragic loss for Scott’s children, relatives, and his LLNS coworkers.
I am missing something - this was definitely tragic, but it occurred 14 years ago in 2012 per the article. Why bring this up now? I expect there have been many unfortunate deaths in the intervening years at the Labs.
“I am missing something - this was definitely tragic, but it occurred 14 years ago in 2012 per the article. Why bring this up now? I expect there have been many unfortunate deaths in the intervening years at the Labs.”
It may have been posted yesterday October 18, because that tragic event, was 14 years ago to the day. Yes, death is unfortunate, tragic, and sometimes preventable. When preventable, a LLNL “lessons learned” review is necessary, but rarely occurs. I hope this addresses your question.
On this blog years ago, some of Scott’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) coworkers were mystified as to why there was no NIF management effort to coordinate or facilitate a remembrance activity to honor him and to help process their grief.
Maybe it would make sense to honor his memory by improving conditions now? Are they improved since this happened 14 years ago?
Since the privatization, the focus of LLNS has been on getting paid. The "fee" was substantially based on safety. So, safety became the focus. Forget about people! Under UC, there was a sense of caring and people delivered their best!
That annual LLNS “safety” evaluation “fee” criteria administered by the NNSA/DOE, is unfortunately orthogonal, to how LLNS is contractually permitted, to treat its employees, or how it may freely, create toxic work environments for employees.
No annual NNSA metrics have been established ever, to evaluate LLNS, if a LLNS employee self-selects to “not be alive” from a toxic work environment, or an employee that runs over himself after being suddenly forced into EBA or EIT status, and dies. Think about that. Nothing random here. All contractually permitted. WOW.
Thus far, no LLNS management counter claims regarding preventable LLNS employee deaths? Hard to contain info that an LLC no longer has control over, as time passes. Didn’t think that one through? Where is the LLNL field office on this? Complicit?
Maybe an independent Nick Shirley caliber investigation is well overdue.
These life tragedies may have occurred “back in the day”, but has the work environment changed in the present day as a result?
RIP
Anthony Chaves-Triad LANL
Melissa Casillas - Triad LANL
Steven Garcia - FM&T KCNSC
“Present day”? Hard to say since some of the contributing factors of the past “life tragedies” were kept under wraps, as would future ones unfortunately.
“On June 26, 2009, a Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS) employee was in the process of transporting six boxes containing personal property to his new office in preparation for a routine transfer to another position within the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.”
“Routine transfer”? A status change from a programmatically funded NIF
assignment to EBA/EIT status is a “routine transfer”? Yes they do occur, and can be processed while maintaining dignity and respect for the employee or, handled in sh_tty way.
“In addition, the LE1’s personal effects were not inventoried but may have provided insight into his medical condition at the time of the accident a missed opportunity. The same
with a closed circuit television located inclose proximity of the parking lot where the accident occurred which may have recorded the entire vehicle accident sequence prior to being automatically erased and reused another missed opportunity for data collection.”
https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2014/04/f14/LLNL_TypeA_Report.pdf
In 2009, a NNSA/DOE contractor LLNS, so technically advanced, promised a “star on Earth”, lost security video
footage, of a person that died by his OWN vehicle, and DOE/NNSA lets that just slide? Nothing to see here.
“person died by his OWN vehicle”
The vehicle in question was a GSA owned 2008 Chevrolet 1500 extended cab pickup, Navy blue checked out by his supervisor 1/2 hour prior.
A “look over here” formal investigation into a LLNS employee vehicle fatality occurred in 2009, with missing accident scene evidence and missing video footage declared a “missed opportunity”. Is there a common denominator with the 2012 LLNS employee tragedy?
The last great LSEO Superintendent was Frank P., after him, no so much.
Many, many years now have pasted from those horrible events. So what has happened to the basically unaccomplished, PhD bully/cowards, that ran open loop around that time frame?
Not all, but some. You know, the ones that jumped on their young female engineering subordinates when things went wrong? Making them cry and seeking protection among others nearby? Sad. A real, sh_t show permitted by LSEO management.
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