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Enforcement Decisions

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Axon Aerospace, Inc. d/b/a Axon Products, Inc.

Docket Order: PHMSA-2010-0297

Respondent was assessed a civil penalty of $1,125 for one violation of the HMR when it offered shipments of paint and paint related material for transportation in commerce, which were required to be placarded, when it had not registered and paid the registration fee.  One alleged violation dismissed.

Roman Lazarenko

Docket Order: PHMSA-2010-0236

Respondent was assessed a civil penalty of $14,000 for two violations of the HMR when it offered air bag modules, a class 9 hazardous material, for transportation in commerce (1) without properly describing this material on an accompanying shipping paper and marking and labeling the package as required, and (2) in an unauthorized packaging.

Battery Specialists, Inc.

Docket Order: PHMSA-2010-0206

Respondent was assessed a civil penalty of $10,500 for one violation of the HMR when it offered lithium batteries for transportation in commerce as a Class 9 hazardous material in packages certified as meeting a UN performance standard in the HMR when the packages had a gross mass that exceeded the gross mass to which the outer packaging had been certified.

KBC, Inc.

Docket Order: PHMSA-2010-0134

See decision on appeal

Federal Fire Equipment Co., Inc.

Docket Order: PHMSA-2010-0143

Respondent was assessed a civil penalty of $3,420 for two violations of the HMR when it failed to (1) assure the accuracy of its retest equipment at pressures within 500 psi of the pressures at which it retested and requalified compressed gas cylinders and maintain complete and accurate records of calibration, and (2) inform its motor vehicle operator of the requirements of the materials of trade exception.  Two alleged violations (Nos. 1 and 5 combined).  Two alleged violations dismissed.

Spectrum Laboratory Products, Inc.

Docket Order: PHMSA-2010-0144

Respondent was assessed a civil penalty of $7,140 for one of the HMR when it had its ZZ-141 box manufactured and marked as meeting the UN performance standards “UN4G/X15.6/S . . . +AA2590” as certified for use with inner one-liter glass bottles and “UN4G/X15.7/S . . . +AA2589” and “UN4G/Y13.0/S . . . +AA2589” as certified for use with inner 1250 cc glass jars (with and without vermiculite, respectively), when design qualification testing of these combination packagings was required but not performed.