Just this week, I received a negative comment on a blog post I wrote back in August 2009 (http://crisisexperts.blogspot.com/2009/08/doing-right-thing-example-of-terrible.html). I wrote about CES Environmental Services and a long list of environmental and safety violations. Thanks to Anonymous' comment, I decided to research the latest on CES.
This story appeared in the Houston Chronicle on August 31, 2010. "CES Environmental Services, the Houston-based waste management company that ran afoul with neighbors and regulators over odors, explosions and on-the-job deaths at its plants, has filed for bankruptcy protection. The move came seven months after Houston halted wastewater service to the company's Griggs Road facility....
"In the filing, CES reported between $1 million and $10 million in liabilities and less than $50,000 in assets.... The company has been at odds with regulators since 2005, when neighbors of the facility began to complain about sickening odors. Over the past four years, the city's Bureau of Air Quality Control has received more than 200 complaints about the smells wafting from the plant.
"An explosion at the plant sent metal debris into the backyards of residents in December 2008. Neighbors said they were assured the causes of the blast had been corrected, but another explosion occurred two weeks later. In July 2009, CES employee Bruce Clayton Howard died when an explosion and flash fire at the plant knocked him from the top of a tank he was filling with water. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined the company $1.5 million for safety violations after an investigation into the death, which was the third at CES facilities in less than a year.
"Citing CES' troubled past, Bank of America, one of the company's creditors, has asked U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Jeff Bohm to convert the case from a Chapter 11 reorganization to a so-called Chapter 7 liquidation. The bank contends that it is doubtful that CES will be able to generate business and address regulatory issues under its existing management." (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7180561.html)
A browse through CES' website shows the last news release came on October 20, 2009. It expresses defiance against the state attorney general. (http://www.cesenvironmental.com/news.htm) No place do I see any information about bankruptcy, explosions, fatalities, or fines.
Come on, Anonymous. Don't blame the news media. Don't blame me. This is a company that had a smoldering crisis that is still in denial. Organizations that circle the wagons will continue to be attacked. Own up to your mistakes. Change the way you do business, or else your smoldering crisis may be your demise.
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