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Asbestos Removal Company Charged with Insurance Fraud
Last month, the WaukeshaPatch reported that the owner of a Waukesha, Wisconsin asbestos removal company was charged with forged insurance papers. The man is accused of using the forged paperwork to show potential clients that his company had insurance coverage to handle asbestos removal services. The company’s owner has been charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court with several counts ...
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Rising cost of asbestos disposal causes industry concern
The asbestos removal industry is concerned about the rising cost associated with asbestos disposal according to a recent survey carried out by sister company Windsor Waste Management (WWM). The industry-wide survey carried out in conjunction with ACAD last summer and reported at the end of 2016 looked at the challenges facing the asbestos removal industry and in particular those around training ...
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Rising Cost of Asbestos Disposal Causes Industry Concern
The asbestos removal industry is concerned about the rising cost associated with asbestos disposal according to a recent survey carried out by sister company Windsor Waste Management (WWM). The industry-wide survey carried out in conjunction with ACAD last summer and reported at the end of 2016 looked at the challenges facing the asbestos removal industry and in particular those around training ...
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San Diego Gas and Electric Convicted of Asbestos Violations
SAN DIEGO, California, July 25, 2007 (ENS) - A federal jury in San Diego has found San Diego Gas and Electric Company guilty on three counts of violating asbestos work practice standards and one count of making false statements. The charges relate to the company's removal of asbestos from 9.23 miles of underground piping at the former Encanto Gas Holder facility in Lemon Grove, California, in ...
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Council fined after school caretaker exposed to asbestos
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning employers they must ensure all relevant employees are aware of the location of asbestos in the workplace after a school caretaker was exposed to hazardous dust. North Tyneside Council today pleaded guilty to five breaches of the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2002. It was fined £17,005 and ordered to pay £3,911 costs at North Tyneside ...
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Albany, NY, asbestos removal company cited by US Labor Department`s OSHA for 1 willful and 8 serious violations of safety standards
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Lorice Enterprises LLC of Albany, N.Y., for nine alleged violations of safety and health standards, including one willful violation, while removing asbestos containing roofing material at a site located on Kent Street. The asbestos remediation company faces a total $83,300 in proposed fines. "Lorice ...
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Enkay Engineering is the sixth oldest company in Los Angeles
Enkay Engineering is the sixth oldest company in los Angeles. Providing environmental safe services to residential, commercial and government sites since 1986. Enkay is fully insured and bonded company for asbestos, mold and lead paint removal. Our workers are also certified and experienced. Southern California's oldest and most trusted environmental remediation company. Remove asbestos, mold ...
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New York Air monitoring firm, supervisors found guilty of fraud and conspiracy (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Justice Department announced today that a federal jury in Utica, New York has found Certified Environmental Services, Inc. (CES), two of its managers, Nicole Copeland and Elisa Dunn and one of its employees, Sandy Allen, guilty of conspiring to aid and abet Clean Air Act violations, commit mail fraud, and defraud the United States. The ...
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OSHA cites 6 Chicago-area companies for worker exposure to asbestos during repairs at Evanston, Illinois, school
Workers from six separate companies renovating Chute Middle School's cafeteria in Evanston were exposed to asbestos, lead and electrical hazards, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Illinois Department of Public Health has determined. Staff and students were on summer break during the July 2014 inspection, which was initiated after OSHA received a ...
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Owner of Massachusetts` Largest Asbestos Training School Indicted
The owner of Environmental Compliance Training was charged in federal court on Aug. 22 with falsely reporting the school had trained dozens of individuals to conduct asbestos removal work. One employee of the company was also charged, in a case jointly investigated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. Albania DeLeon, of ...
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UK HSE warns: unlicensed stripping of asbestos will be penalised
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning the building trade that companies or individual contractors removing asbestos without holding the necessary licences face prosecution. This move follows the HSE prosecution of Roger Lee Lavender, the managing director of a company, Secal Laser Ltd, for the unlicensed removal of asbestos insulation boards from the company's Telford factory. Surveys, ...
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EPA Reaches Agreement with Two Companies Requiring the Cleanup of Asbestos at a School and Head Start Facility in Penuelas, Puerto Rico
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with the Homeca Recycling Center Co, Inc. and Tallaboa Industrial Park, LLC to clean up asbestos that spread from a building in the Tallaboa Industrial Park during demolition to the nearby Jorge Lucas Perez Valdevieso School and a children’s Head Start facility. The building was being demolished as part of the redevelopment ...
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