Source: Insurance Journal

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA) has fined Aapex Environmental Services Inc. for $57,000 for allegedly violating six occupational health standards relating to asbestos exposure. The violations that allegedly took place during the contractor's work at the former Agway building in Dewitt, New York include:

1. Failure to conduct the required monitoring of employee exposure to asbestos, even though the company's records indicated the monitoring had taken places;
2. Failure to collect short term air sampling;
3. Failure to keep accurate exposure monitoring records;
4. Failure to notify employees of sampling results;
5. Failure to establish an asbestos containment system by trained employees;
6. Failure to prevent the leak of asbestos-contaminated water from a worksite.

Aapex has an upcoming meeting with OSHA to discuss the disciplinary actions.

These fines follow the recent admissions of a former Aapex supervisor regarding the improper disposal of asbestos fibers where fibers drained into pubic sewers and contaminated construction debris. The supervisor, Everette Blatche, has pled guilty to a felony conspiracy charge and will face sentencing in August.

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