FAA proposes civil penalty against UPS
The USA’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a USD 120,000 civil penalty against UPS for allegedly violating the hazardous materials regulations. The FAA alleges that UPS, as a shipper, knowingly offered a shipment containing lithium batteries to the company’s UPS Airlines for transportation by air from Ontario, CA, to Louisville, KY, on 15 November 2018.
The FAA alleges that the shipment contained multiple loosely packed lithium batteries, which had no protection from short circuit, were damaged, and that several of the batteries were in a reactive state.
The FAA also claims that the shipment was not accompanied by a shipper’s declaration for dangerous goods and that it was not properly described, marked or labelled to indicate its hazardous nature. UPS also seems to have failed to include emergency response information with the shipment. (ah)