A company located in Jamestown, New York has recently been charged for a number of violations regarding asbestos-containing materials. Blackstone Business Enterprise Inc. faces up to $273,000 in fines.

According to the United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Blackstone’s violations include failure to provide the company’s temporary workers with the proper protective equipment in order to limit the risk of asbestos exposure, not providing workers with the proper training to abate asbestos, and failing to monitor the air for asbestos levels. The violations all stem from the removal of asbestos from steam pipes insulated with the dangerous substance.

Asbestos exposure is known to result in a number of diseases that are often fatal due to the fact that such diseases tend to have such a long latency period. Such diseases include but are not limited to lung cancer, mesothelioma, and asbestosis. In many cases it takes such a disease anywhere from twenty to fifty years before being discovered. For this reason an asbestos-caused disease will most likely already be in advanced stages of development by the time it is diagnosed.

The steel and sheet metal fabricating company was charged with a total of 18 violations and has 15 business days to respond to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The company can comply and pay the fines, request a conference with the director of the OSHA, or contest the violations in court.

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