Rockwell Fined $42,000 for Radioactive Shipment
Rockwell International will pay a $42,000 penalty for shipping an excessively radioactive container by truck from its Santa Susana Field Laboratory west of Chatsworth to Pennsylvania last October, the U.S. Department of Transportation said Friday.
The penalty “is one of the larger” fines assessed in the 15-year history of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, said Ed Bonekemper, assistant chief counsel for the department’s research and special programs administration.
The truck was hauling six containers of contaminated equipment from Rockwell back to their owners. The violation came to light only because the truck blundered into an overpass when the driver got lost on a country road a few miles from his destination in Wampum, Pa.
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