# CLEAN TEXTILE SYSTEMS, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `18156`
- **Case Number:** 03-1998-0244
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $98K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $85K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CLEAN TEXTILE SYSTEMS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

IN MAY, 1994, CLEAN TEXTILE USED ITS OWN EMPLOYEES AND CON-  TRACTORS TO REMOVE ASBESTOS INSULATION FROM STEAM PIPES IN   ITS FORMER LAUNDRY FACILITY IN CLARKSBURG, WVA. THE ASBESTOS INSULATION WAS REMOVED DRY, W/NO ASBESTOS-TRAINED SUPERVISOR PRESENT, AND THROWN INTO 4 LARGE DUMPSTERS, WHICH WERE THEN  TAKEN TO THE NONHAZARDOUS WASTE SECTION OF AREA LANDFILLS    AND DUMPED. LANDFILL WORKERS EXPOSED TO THE DRY, FRIABLE     ASBESTOS DURING DUMPING ALERTED EPA. CLEAN TEXTILE REMOVED A  LARGE HOTWATER TANK COVERED W/ASBESTOS FROM THE FACIITY,    RELEASING ASBESTOS AS IT WAS DRAGGED OUTSIDE THE BUIDING.    THE ASBESTOS CONTAMINATION HAS BEEN CLEANED UP BY ASBESTOS   CONTRACTORS HIRED BY CLEAN TEXTILE.

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