Washington (CNN) Former and current employees at a Boeing plant in South Carolina that produces the company's 787 Dreamliner claim the factory is overrun by "shoddy production and weak oversight that have threatened to compromise safety" -- a revelation that surfaces as Boeing is under fire over a separate aircraft, the New York Times reported Saturday.

The paper said a review of "hundreds of pages of internal emails, corporate documents and federal records," as well as interviews with more than a dozen current and former employees of the North Charleston plant, revealed "a culture that often valued production speed over quality." According to the paper, plant employees described defective manufacturing, debris left on planes and pressure to not report violations across "nearly a dozen whistle-blower claims and safety complaints" filed with federal regulators.

The report comes as the company is dealing with the aftermath of two deadly crashes of its 737 Max aircraft, which have drawn attention to the company's production and safety standards. The Times noted that "there is no evidence" that the issues raised in the plant -- which was celebrated as "a state-of-the-art manufacturing hub" when it opened in 2009 -- "have led to any major safety incidents."

In a number of cases, the paper said a former quality manager at Boeing, John Barnett, "discovered clusters of metal slivers hanging over the wiring that commands the flight controls." Barnett told the Times that if those "sharp" slivers "penetrated" the wiring, the result could be "catastrophic." Barnett filed a whistle-blower complaint with regulators, according to the paper.

"As a quality manager at Boeing, you're the last line of defense before a defect makes it out to the flying public," Barnett told the Times. "And I haven't seen a plane out of Charleston yet that I'd put my name on saying it's safe and airworthy."

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