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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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The MACK Group, LLC completed asbestos tile and mastic abatement project
The MACK Group, LLC, a premier asbestos abatement and flooring removal contractor, recently completed an asbestos abatement project that consisted of the removal of asbestos floor tile and mastic. The Mack Group, LLC (MACK) was selected to perform the work based upon their impeccable safety record, expertise and economical pricing. The project was completed for a private commercial client in ...
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HSE prosecutes English companies following multiple breaches of asbestos safety laws
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a stark warning about managing the risks from asbestos, following its prosecution of a two companies in Essex, after workers in their employment were exposed to asbestos containing materials. R Maskell Ltd of Loughton, Essex was fined £150,000 with costs of £30,000 at Ipswich Crown Court today (6th August). The company pleaded guilty to Section ...
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OSHA cites Douglass Colony Group Inc. for 11 violations; exposes workers to asbestos and fines total $81,000
Commercial roofer Douglass Colony Group Inc. was cited for four repeat and seven serious violations by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for failing to protect workers from exposure to asbestos at a Denver work site. Proposed penalties total $81,000. "Asbestos is a dangerous material that can potentially cause lifelong, irreversible health problems if ...
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Illinois Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Clean Air Act Violations Involving Asbestos
Duane “Butch” O’Malley, 59, of Bourbonnais, Ill., who was convicted by a federal jury on September 26, 2011, for the illegal removal, handling and disposal of asbestos from a Kankakee building in August 2009, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by Federal District Court Judge Michael McCuskey. O’Malley was also ordered to pay restitution of $47,086 to the U.S. ...
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New fugitive added to EPA fugitives web site
EPA has added Albania Deleon, former president of Massachusetts’ largest asbestos removal training school, to its fugitives Web site. Deleon failed to appear for her sentencing on March 23 at the Federal District Court, District of Massachusetts, and a warrant has been issued for her arrest. Last November, a federal jury convicted Deleon, a resident of Andover, Mass., of selling certificates ...
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Unlicensed asbestos removal will be penalised warns HSE
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning the building trade that companies and contractors will face prosecution if they remove asbestos without a licence. It follows HSE’s successful prosecution today (4 September) of three contractors who carried out unlicensed asbestos removal at Kelford School in Rotherham in 2006. Mansell Build Ltd (previously Birse Build Ltd) of Cheadle Hulme, ...
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EPA fugitive arrested in the Dominican Republic / Albania Deleon fled U.S. prior to sentencing related to asbestos training scam (HQ)
Nineteen months after she fled her federal sentencing hearing, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fugitive Albania Deleon was captured on Saturday in the Dominican Republic. Dominican law enforcement authorities with the assistance of the United States Marshals Service, arrested Deleon, who had disguised her appearance and assumed a false identity, following a vehicle stop. Deleon was ...
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Man Receives Jail Time for Illegal Asbestos Removal
Dylan Starnes, an employee of the Atlanta based Environmental Contracting Company, was sentenced to 33 months in prison and three years of probation for improperly removing asbestos from a low-income public housing project on St. Thomas. In addition to the jail sentence, Starnes must also pay for the cost of medical surveillance required for any people who were exposed to the asbestos. Starnes ...
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US Labor Department sues Albany, NY, contractor for allegedly firing and harassing employee who reported asbestos hazards at Gloversville school
The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit against Albany-based demolition and construction disposal contractor Champagne Demolition LLC and manager Joseph Champagne for allegedly firing an employee who reported improper asbestos removal practices while working at Gloversville High School. On June 10, 2010, the employee informed company management of the improper practices. The worker was ...
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Illinois Company Receives $127K Asbestos Fine
Earlier this month, the Chicago Tribune published a report about an Oak Brook company that federal safety regulators intend to levy a $127,600 fine against for 22 serious health violations. The infractions occurred at one of the company sites located in Franklin Park. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) became involved after a complaint ...
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Former EPA fugitive sentenced to more than seven years in prison for asbestos training scam
The former owner of the country’s largest asbestos abatement training school was sentenced to prison today, after having fled the United States after her trial in November 2008. U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton sentenced Albania Deleon, 41, formerly of Andover, Mass., to 87 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay more than ...
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Cedrec’s Gareth Billinghurst says companies are still struggling to deal with the requirements to carry out asbestos risk assessments
As this year’s Global Asbestos Awareness Week (April 1 – 7th) is marked by BOHS, the Chartered Society for Worker Health Protection, specialists in environmental and H&S legislation Cedrec says the risks associated with asbestos are still not given the time and severity that they warrant and facilities throughout the UK are still not following their legal responsibilities. The ...
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Puma energy caribe agrees to clean up Caribbean petroleum site under an agreement with EPA; will also address environmental problems at gas stations across Puerto Rico
Puma Energy Caribe, LLC has agreed to clean up the former Caribbean Petroleum Refining facility in Bayamon, Puerto Rico and address environmental conditions at 147 gas stations throughout Puerto Rico under two agreements proposed today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Puma intends to purchase the petroleum storage facility, now known as CAPECO, and the gas stations after ...
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R. Baker & Son All Industrial Services Completes Technical Selective Demolition Project in NYC
R. Baker & Son All Industrial Services, a specialized dismantling, rigging and demolition contractor, completed a very technical selective demolition project for Con Edison in Brooklyn, New York. Con Edison purchased the property for a future substation installation and required the demolition of the buildings on the lot. The lot consisted of several buildings on a 225 ft x 200 ft parcel in ...
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Environmental clean Up work completed at Mt. Norris Boy Scout camp
Federal and State clean up workers recently completed work to identify and remove asbestos contamination from the Mt. Norris Boy Scout Reservation in Eden Mills Vermont, a camp facility owned and operated by the Green Mountain Council, Boy Scouts of America. EPA performed the work at the request of the Boy Scouts. Environmental sampling work began at the site in early 2009. Following initial ...
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Oklahoma City Officials Convicted of Environmental Crimes
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, August 21, 2007 (ENS) - A federal jury Monday found two Oklahoma City officials guilty of negligently allowing the release of asbestos, a hazardous air pollutant. The evidence presented at trial showed that the City Manager of Elk City, Oklahoma, Guy R. Hylton, Jr. and a building superintendent, Chick Arthur Little, used inmates from the Elk City Work Center to remove ...
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Karza provides Telecommunication Construction & Maintenance Audits
Karza Pty Ltd, an Australian owned consultancy, provides experienced auditing resources to help you manage the delivery and maintenance of telecommunication infrastructure. Karza can assist you in developing, implementing and continually improving both your internal and third party management system audit programmes, including: Risk Management (AS/NZS 4360); Environmental Management ...
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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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Companies struggling with asbestos risk assessments, says legislation expert
The risks associated with asbestos are still not given the time and severity that they warrant and facilities throughout the UK are still not following their legal responsibilities, according to specialists in environmental and H&S legislation Cedrec. The new style of asbestos controls, originally set under the Control of Asbestos Regulations SI 2006/2739, and tightened further through the ...
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