BOSTON — Two companies will pay a absolute of $215,000 to achieve allegations that they performed actionable asbestos assignment on the Harbor Place activity in city Haverhill and the Mass Mills advance in Lowell, accompaniment Attorney Accepted Maura Healey appear Wednesday.
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The accord judgment, entered Wednesday in Suffolk Superior Court, acclimatized a accusation filed by Healey adjoin Dellbrook Construction, LLC, a Quincy accepted contractor, and A-Best Abatement Inc., a New Hampshire asbestos abatement company. The accusation declared that Dellbrook and A-Best bootless to accede with the state’s apple-pie air law and regulations administering the safe administration of asbestos at architecture projects.
Dellbrook attenuated the air with asbestos during architecture at Harbor Place, a development activity in city Haverhill that includes a new University of Massachusetts Lowell accessory campus, by causing or acceptance an underground asbestos-containing aqueduct to be ashamed into small, dry pieces and broadcast in accessible air about the property, according to the complaint.
Dellbrook bootless to chase any of the appropriate assignment practices or acquaint the Department of Ecology Aegis afore abolition the aqueduct and endangering bloom and safety, Healey said.
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The Attorney General’s Office additionally alleges that the defendants acquired or accustomed the abatement of asbestos-containing abstracts from the basement of a five-story architecture actuality adapted at Mass Mills, a residential development activity in Lowell, afterwards sealing or appropriately ventilating assignment areas or afterward added assignment practices appropriate by law to abbreviate asbestos exposure.
The defendants additionally allegedly larboard asbestos arresting in a basement and stored dry, burst asbestos-containing actual in torn, apparent accoutrements in a decay bivouac in a parking lot abaft the building. The accusation added alleges that Dellbrook burst and removed asbestos-containing abstracts from added areas of Mass Mills afterwards analysis those areas for asbestos or advice the Massachusetts Department of Ecology Protection.
“Companies charge ensure that any architecture and annihilation assignment involving asbestos is done in a safe and acknowledged way to assure workers and the public,” Healey said.
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“General contractors and asbestos abatement companies accept a assignment to anxiously chase the laws and regulations that are advised to assure the ambiance and accessible health,” said Ecology Aegis Commissioner Martin Suuberg. “When they don’t, the commonwealth will authority them accountable.”
Asbestos is a mineral cilia that has been acclimated in a advanced array of architecture materials, including roofing, flooring, siding, wallboard, caulking and insulation. If asbestos is break handled or maintained, fibers can be appear into the air and inhaled, potentially consistent in life-threatening illnesses such as asbestosis, lung blight and mesothelioma.
Asbestosis is a serious, progressive, abiding non-cancer ache of the lungs for which there is no accepted able treatment. Mesothelioma is a attenuate anatomy of blight that is begin in the attenuate membranes of the lung, chest, belly and heart.
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This ache may not appearance up until abounding years afterwards acknowledgment and it has no accepted cure, although treatments are accessible to allay the furnishings of the illness.
Healey has fabricated asbestos assurance a priority. The purpose of the Healthy Buildings, Healthy Air action she appear in March is to advance the aegis of children, families and workers from the bloom risks airish by asbestos.
Since September 2016, the Attorney General's Office, with the advice of the Department of Ecology Protection, has pursued asbestos administration cases that accept altogether resulted in about $1.7 actor in civilian penalties.
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For added advice on asbestos and asbestos-related work, appointment MassDEP's website outlining asbestos architecture and annihilation notification requirements.
This case was handled by Assistant Attorney Accepted Turner Smith of the Ecology Aegis Division of the Attorney General's Office. Senior bounded admonition Colleen McConnell, Asbestos Program area arch John Macauley and Asbestos Program ecology analyst Grady Dante, all of MassDEP’s Northeast Bounded Office in Wilmington, assisted Smith.
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