Saturday, November 06, 2010
Techsol Chemical President Sentenced
WEST VIRGINIA....
Former president and operator of Techsol Chemical Co., Inc., 59 year old James R. Holt of Huntington was sentenced Friday to 60 days of community confinement, six months of home detention and 5 years probation, along with being ordered to pay $13,948 in restitution to the Huntington Sanity Board Wastewater Treatment Plant and reasonable payments towards a previous $3 million consent decree with the W.Va. Department of Environmental Protection. Holt pleaded guilty in July to negligently introducing coal tar light oil, a hazardous substance, into the Huntington Sanitation District Sewage Treatment Plant on October 28, 2004. Twenty-two thousand gallons were being transferred from a rail car to a tanker truck when the spill occurred. Holt admitted to not having his workers properly trained and not having a back-up plan in place in case of a problem with the transfer.
The Huntington community around the plant had to shelter-in-place and in some cases had to leave the area.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 1:16 PM 
