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Enforcement Decisions

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Howard's Fire Control

Docket Order: PHMSA-2011-0032

Respondent was assessed a civil penalty of $4,130 for two violations of the HMR when it represented, marked, and certified DOT specification and special permit compressed gas cylinders on days when it failed to assure the accuracy of its retest equipment to within ±1.0% at pressures within 500 psi of the pressures at which it retested cylinders that day (violation No. 1), and it failed to maintain a copy of its current RIN issuance letter at the location where requalification is performed (violation No. 2).

American Iron & Metal Co., Inc.

Docket Order: PHMSA-2010-0298

Respondent was assessed a civil penalty of $7,000 for one violation of the HMR when it offered isopropanol solution, a flammable liquid hazardous material, for transportation in commerce in a combination packaging marked as meeting a UN performance standard in the HMR, when the packaging had not been assembled and closed in the same manner as tested and in accordance with the manufacturer¿s closure instructions.