Environmental complaint received 2023-12-01 13:00:00
Source: Kiel Laboratories/Southfield Classics
Source location: 5659 Southfield Drive
Flowery Branch, Georgia 30542
Complaint location: [Not entered]

They are using a loading dock as a paint booth to paint vehicles. The "paint booth" has standard exhaust fans with no filters, spraying paint chemicals into the atmosphere going directly into a watershed area, coating the plants, ground and trees. The paint waste/lacquor thinner is sprayed out of the gun through the fans, on the ground etc.. They have no collection for any of the paint waste. They wash the dust/overspray out of the room with a hose that goes to a drain in the room and exits the rear of the building directly into the water streams. The paint mixing area has no mixing room or ventilation exposing the workers to dangerous fumes. The building has other fans(roof, walls) with no filters to ventilate other chemicals out of the building. Workers are constantly exposed to cancerous fumes inside and outside of the building from welding, sanding, paint dust, mixing, painting and glue.