Docket Order: PHMSA-2011-0175

Respondent was assessed a civil penalty of $6,912 for four violations of the HMR when it offered for transportation in commerce flammable hazardous materials as follows: compressed gas in aerosol containers that had not been subjected to the required hot water bath after the containers were filled with paint (violation No. 1); paint related material in reused steel drums marked as meeting a UN performance standard in the HMR, when the drums were not authorized for this material because the drums had not been leakproofness tested prior to being refilled with a hazardous material (violation No. 2); and paint related material accompanied by shipping papers which failed to properly describe the material because ¿paint rel mat¿ is not an authorized abbreviation in the HMR (violation No. 5); and when Respondent allowed employees to perform functions subject to requirements in the HMR when some of the employees had not received initial or recurrent hazmat employee training and it failed to create and maintain records of hazmat employee training (violation No. 3). One alleged violation dismissed, and one alleged violation reduced to a warning with no penalty.