Environmental, Health and Safety Consulting

Abandoned sites can be damaging to the environment and can lead to expensive cleanups. Take for example the former Dayton Tire and Rubber Facility. In 1987, vandals entered the closed tire and rubber plant to recover salvageable materials. While removing cooper cores from electric transformers remaining at the facility, the vandals drained the Askerol (PCB containing) transformer oil onto the ground. The oil ended up making its way into a nearby creek costing more than $8 million in cleanup cost. If this was not bad enough, consider the abandoned chemical factory in a residential area of Toledo. An eight-year-old boy fell into a shallow acid-lined pit while playing with left-over chemicals at an abandoned factory. The boy ended up hospitalized with chemical burns covering his body. These and similar incidents led Ohio legislature to create the Cessation of Regulated Operations (CRO) Program.