# WR GRACE & CO., INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `143`
- **Case Number:** 01-1988-0005
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $90K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- WR GRACE & CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- WR GRACE & CO. (2) (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON SEPT. 11, OCT. 26 AND NOV 18, 1987, EPA RECEIVED NOTI-  FICATION LETTERS FROM AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC.  OF A PROPOSED PROJECT TO REMOVE 5,778 LINEAR FEET AND 11,478 SQUARE FEET OF ASBESTOS-CONTAINING MATERIALS FROM WR GRACE   AND COMPANY, INC'S ACTON, MA FACILITY. ON NOV 6, 1987, EPA   RECEIVED A COMPLAINT FROM A GRACE EMPLOYEE REGARDING IM-     PROPER REMOVAL OF ASBESTOS.  ON NOV 10, 1987, EPA ENGINEER   DONALD DAHL INSPECTED THE FACILITY AND OBSERVED A WORKER     STRIPPING ASBESTOS-CONTAINING MATERIALS WITHOUT WETTING      THEM IN VIOLATION OF 40 CFR S 61.147(C).  THIS WORKER WAS    THROWING THE MATERIALS APPROXIMATELY FOUR FEET TO THE        GROUND CAUSING DUST TO ARISE.  DAHL ALSO OBSERVED PILES OF   DRY, FRIABLE ASBESTOS MATERIALS LYING ON THE GROUND INSIDE   THE CONTAINMENT AREA.  DAHL INSTRUCTED THE WORKER TO IMMEDI- ATELY WET THE DRY MATERIALS AND TO STOP REMOVING THE MATER-  IALS DRY.  DAHL PROCEEDED WITH HIS INSPECTION.  HE RETURNED  TEN MINUTES LATER TO FIND THAT THE ABOVE-MENTIONED WORKER    CONTINUED TO REMOVE THE ASBESTOS-CONTAINING MATERIALS WITH-  OUT WETTING THEM.                                              03/31/89:  NO UPDATE RECEIVED.

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