=> NITROGLYCERIN HAD BEEN MANUFACTURED AT THE OLD AMERICAN GLYCERIN PLANT, BUT MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS HAD CEASED IN OR ABOUT 1963. HOWEVER, VARIOUS DRUMS, CANS & EQUIPMENT REMAINED ON THE SITE IN DETERIORATING CONDITION. THESE CONTAINED VARYING AMOUNTS OF NITRIC ACID,NITROGLYCERIN ORTHONITROTOLUENE & DINITROTOLUENE, ALL HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES => IN AUGUST OF 1984 A DRUM CONTAINING NITRIC ACID BURST AT THE SITE, & EPA WAS NOTIFIED. THE DEFENDANT, JOHN BRYNER JR WAS ASKED BY EPA TO DO A CLEANUP BUT DECLINED. HOWEVER EPA WAS GIVEN ORAL PERMISSION TO ENTER ON THE SITE AND PERFORM REMOVAL ACTIONS. => THE CLEAN-UP PROGRESSED WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT INCIDENT UNTIL NOV 28, 1984 WHEN JOHN BRYNER JR. CAME TO THE SITE WITH A LOADED RIFLE & STATED THAT HE WAS GOING TO SHOOT SOME CANS IN A LAGOON ON THE SITE TO PROVE THAT THEY DID NOT CONTAIN NITROGLYCERIN. THE EPA OSC WAS ABLE TO DISSUADE MR. BRYNER. => => HOWEVER, ON SAT DEC 1, 1984, MR BRYNER TOLD A MEMBER OF THE COAST GUARD, WHO WAS PART OF THE CLEAN-UP TEAM, THAT IF THE TEAM WAS NOT OFF THE SITE BY DEC 5, 1984 THEN MR BRYNER & A FRIEND WOULD START SHOOTING PEOPLE. ON DEC 3,1984 MR BRYNER RETURNED TO THE SITE & REPEATED HIS THREAT. MR BRYNER ALSO SAID THAT HE WAS SERIOUS ABOUT HIS THREATS. => THE ON SITE COORDINATOR (OSC) TOO