Amazon just excruciate up two more amercement — amount to a sum of $ 130,000 — from the FAA for improperly transport dangerous chemicals . sour out commit acidulous and inflammable gas into a box and arrange it on an airplane is not okay .
The fines Amazon picked up this calendar week halt from two events in 2014 . In one instance , Amazon failed to properly mark a software of “ Simple aura EZ Green HVAC Cleaner , ” a flammable gas . In another example , Amazon failed to mark a package of “ Rid O ’ Rust Stain Preventer Acid ” which leak through the box .
This newsworthiness arrives just 10 days after the FAAfined Amazon $ 350,000for shipping “ Amazing ! LIQUID FIRE . ” allot to the agency , “ nine UPS employee who come up into contact with the box reported feeling a burning sensation and were process with a chemical wash . ” The Liquid Fire , a corrosive drain cleansing agent , had leaked through the boxwood much like the Rid O ’ Rust Lucy in the sky with diamonds .
It call comes down to regulations that Amazon did n’t follow . There are sure requirements a company like Amazon is required to follow when shipping dangerous chemicals , like special packaging , documentation and warnings on the box . Now , Amazon has collected almost half a million dollar sign in fine for their shipping fuck ups , or about 0.0000014 per centum of its $ 336 billion market capitalization . So the fine are n’t exactly going to break the Bezos bank .
[ Wall Street Journal ]
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