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Soon after he started his new position as safety chief at Crane Army Ammunition Activity, an Army ammunition production and storage facility at the Navy base in Crane, Indiana, Rick Ward could tell he shouldn’t have taken the job.
Even though CAAA handled extremely sensitive materials, he felt his leadership was less interested in keeping people safe than in saving money. Supervisors ignored his warnings about the sloppy handling of explosives that could lead to disastrous consequences.
Finally, he’d had enough. He submitted an anonymous complaint to OSHA. His supervisors assigned him to investigate the matter himself. An hour after he turned in his investigation report, he said, he was put on administrative leave.
This is how Ward described the episode in the introduction to his whistleblower case that he shared with Hunterbrook. He said he believes he was fired in retaliation for being a whistleblower, a charge the Army has denied, despite reportedly settling a U.S. Merits Protection Board case with Ward.
A new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency document follows Ward’s account and flags critical safety violations at U.S. Naval Support Activity Crane, or NSA Crane, where CAAA is a tenant.
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