Docket Order: PHMSA-2008-0349

Respondent was assessed a civil penalty of $33,975 for four violations of the HMR, when it offered for transportation in commerce lithium batteries, a Class 9 hazardous material, in packagings that were not marked with a proper shipping name or identification number, to which a hazard class warning label had not been affixed, and which were not accompanied by a shipping paper describing the batteries as a hazardous material (violation No. 1), when the batteries had not been proven to meet the requirements in the UN Manual of Tests and Criteria (violation No. 2), in combination packagings which were not authorized because they were not marked as meeting a UN performance standard in the HMR (violation No. 3), and when Respondent had not created and retained records of hazmat employee training (violation No. 4).