# ORKIN EXTERMINATING COMPANY, INC., TOPEKA, KS
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `43203`
- **Case Number:** 07-1988-0140
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $500
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ORKIN EXTERMINATING COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON OR ABOUT JULY 29 AND 30, 1986, RESPONDENT'S EMPLOYEES,    KENNETH PICKRELL AND DAVE HARRIMAN, ACTING WITHIN THE COURSE AND SCOPE OF THEIR EMPLOYMENT, APPLIED THE TERMITICIDE GOLD  CREST C-100 (EPA REGISTRATION NO. 876-63) TO A RESIDENCE     OWNED BY COLEMAN ROTH, 6041 S.E. 44TH, TECUMSEH, KS.         RESPONDENT'S USE OF GOLD CREST C-100 WAS INCONSISTENT WITH   LABEL DIRECTIONS IN THAT IT WAS APPLIED AS A SURFACE APPLI-  CATION TO THE FRONT YARD AND WEST EXTERIOR FOUNDATION WALL,  AND THE RATE OF APPLICATION WAS CALIBRATED BY COUNTING TO    EITHER 12 OR 20.

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