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"[People] would sit there in the safety meetings and get frustrated themselves," the insider says. "A lot of [them] welcomed <br />[the state inspections} because they looked like they were going to start fixing it " <br />Though the insider claims to feel loyalty to Cemex, frustration grew when state inspections began back in March. The <br />insider claims the company seemed to be trying to hide things from the state. The turning point for the insider came when <br />several workers were allegedly shut in the cooler room with a leaking chemical tank in an effort to hide the leak from the <br />state inspector. The workers allegedly became ill, and one allegedly missed work due to the effects of the chemical. <br />"At that point I wasn't worried about [Cemex] because they weren't worried about me or anyone," the insider says. 'This <br />really agitated me to push to get the changes done out there. Somebody had to do something." <br />Frustrated, the insider read a neighbor's complaint against Cemex in the media and contacted the state of Colorado-and <br />later Boulder Weekly. Among the tidbits the insider offered the state was the allegation that plant manager John Lohr had <br />created an "early-warning system" to tip off employees that a state inspector was on the grounds. The insider claims that, <br />whenever Carr arrived, word went out on the radio that there were "donuts in the front office." <br />(After being told about this code phrase, Carr was able to document its use during his June 30 visit to the plant.) <br />When the insider gave this information to the state, the "early-warning system" was abolished, the insider says. But there <br />allegedly remained a desire to warn employees any time an inspector appears. <br />"[Nowadays] they will run to all areas-and I mean run-and tell them the state is there;' says the insider. "Why would you <br />do that? If you didn't have anything to hide, why would you bother anyone with that?" <br />The insider also alleges Cemex employees were instructed to stop equipment during at least one state inspection visit in <br />order to "hide leaks." <br />"They would walk [Carr] to certain areas, and as soon as he'd leave it was business as usual. The Sierra Club was out <br />there, and they just led them around, too," the insider says. <br />And so the insider took a video camera to work to document conditions in areas of the plant the inspector had not seen. <br />The first video demonstrates how afraid the insider was to film while at work. The images jerk around, one moment <br />focused on a dust pile or leaking machinery, the next giving the viewer aclose-up look at the floor or the fabric of the <br />insider's clothing. The second and third tapes are much easier to watch. But all three show images of foot-deep piles of <br />dust beneath conveyor belts; conveyor belt covers leaking plumes of dust; foot-deep dust on walkways; dust-covered <br />cables crossing walkways; open transformer and breaker boxes; ceiling beams buried beneath six-inch-high piles of <br />cement dust; oil-soaked rags tied around leaking machines; pipes swathed in duct tape; three-foot-deep piles of cement <br />dust on roofs, particularly the A-Frame. ("If that much built up on the roof, think how much went into the air," the insider <br />says in the tape narration.) <br />