FEDERAL JUDGE FINES SABRETECH FOR POOR HAZMAT TRAINING
Senior U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King sentenced SabreTech Inc., a Miami aviation repair station, to three years probation and a fine of $500,000 “for willful failure to train its employees properly with regard to handling hazardous materials.”
According to a statement from Marcos Daniel Jimenez, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, SabreTech’s “offense occurred between January 1996, and May 11, 1996, when a passenger jet crashed in the Everglades killing 110, shortly after receiving from SabreTech a cargo of hazardous oxygen generators handled and packed by SabreTech.”
SabreTech, which sold its assets shortly before being indicted in this case, is a subsidiary of Sabreliner Corp., based in St. Louis.