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Article: Wagner Spray Tech and Techtronic Industries Agree to Pay $800,000 Civil Penalty for Delay in Reporting Overheating Battery Chargers.
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- China Weekly News
- Article date:
- August 18, 2009
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that Wagner Spray Tech Corp., of Plymouth, Minn. and Techtronic Industries Co. LTD, of Hong Kong, including its wholly-owned subsidiary Techtronic Industries North America Inc., of Anderson, S.C., have agreed to pay an $800,000 civil penalty. The penalty settles a federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota alleging that Wagner and Techtronic failed to timely report to CPSC as required by federal law the overheating of certain defective cordless power drill battery chargers. These chargers were distributed under the Wagner brand name and manufactured by Techtronic. The products ...