Docket Order: PHMSA-2012-0072

Respondent was assessed a civil penalty of $10,330 for four violations of the HMR when it manufactured and marked DOT specification and special permit compressed gas cylinders with a symbol to identify it as the manufacturer which it was not authorized to use (violation No. 1); it allowed employees to perform functions subject to requirements in the HMR when the employees had not received security awareness training and records of hazmat employee training had not been certified as required (violation No. 2); and it represented, marked, and certified DOT specification and special permit compressed gas cylinders as having been successfully requalified in accordance with the HMR when it failed to maintain complete records of cylinder requalification (violation No. 3), and its retest equipment was not capable of measuring the cylinders’ expansion (violation No. 4).