Whistleblower speaks out on KBR-Halliburton electrocutions VIDEO

Defense contractor Kellogg Brown & Root knowingly performed substandard electrical work in Iraq and threatened workers who “made a lot of noise” about shoddy construction and maintenance, according to ex-KBR electrician Debbie Crawford.

Crawford, appearing on The Rachel Maddow Show March 9th, detailed her experiences working for the embattled company, which is a former subsidiary of Halliburton, the massive energy company once led by former Vice President Dick Cheney.

“There was quite a few complaints about soldiers or civilians, other subcontractors, being shocked, yes,” Crawford said. Late last year KBR denied a CBS News investigation that it knowingly exposed U.S. soldiers to toxic materials in Iraq. In January, the company came under fire in a U.S. Army investigation for “negligent homicide” in the fatal electrocution of a solider.

Crawford, who last year testified before a Senate panel investigating that death, told Maddow Monday that “[i]t was put up or shut up… People who pushed the issue and made a lot of noise were threatened to be transferred into other more hostile work environments…or they were sent home.”