KEROSENE RECALL COLLECTION CENTERS NOW TOTAL 26
Company announces 9 new locations – including 3 in Ohio
HARRISBURG, PA (August 29, 2008) - Pittsburgh Terminals Corporation today announced that nine more convenience stores have agreed to serve as Kerosene Recall Collection Centers – including the first locations in Ohio and additional ones in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. This brings to 26 the total number of places where customers can conveniently return any kerosene purchased this year between May 1st and August 19th in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia and southwestern New York.
Last week, Pittsburgh Terminals Corporation issued a widespread recall of kerosene after tests found some valves had intermittently malfunctioned, allowing traces of gasoline to mix with kerosene. Kerosene contaminated with gasoline creates a risk of fire or explosion.
“We deeply appreciate the assistance of everyone at these stations who is helping to facilitate our collection of potentially contaminated kerosene,” said John Arnold of Pittsburgh Terminals Corporation. “We are doing everything we possibly can to ensure public safety during this recall and these collection centers are crucial to that effort.”
All 26 Kerosene Recall Collection Centers will accept any kerosene returned, regardless of where it was purchased. They will also provide customers with the simple form they need to be reimbursed for their kerosene and the container in which it is returned. The complete list of collection centers – including days of collection, hours of operation and directions – is available at www.ppcterminals.com or by calling toll-free 1-800-692-6016.
Pittsburgh Terminals Corporation has also made arrangements for customers who cannot return their kerosene supply to one of the collection centers. For example, if you purchased a small quantity of kerosene during the recall period that is now in a larger storage tank on your property, the company will come to your home or business, test your kerosene, remove it if it is contaminated and reimburse you in full for the kerosene they collect.
All kerosene now being distributed by Pittsburgh Terminals Corporation is safe to use.
Since the company first learned of the possible contamination last week, Pittsburgh Terminals Corporation has contacted all 37 of its kerosene distributors, conducted extensive sampling of its products, notified other suppliers in the affected area, established 26 collection centers in three states, conducted numerous media interviews, placed dozens of color ads in daily and weekly newspapers throughout the recall area, prepared warning notices for widespread public distribution, established its website at www.ppcterminals.com as a resource for accurate information about the recall, and worked with citizens and government officials to warn customers who lack access to traditional media outlets.
Last Thursday, John Arnold asked Robert French, Director of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, for the agency’s help alerting citizens to the recall, especially Amish families who use kerosene year-round in stoves, lanterns, furnaces, and heaters, but who may not know of the recall.
PEMA immediately implemented a public information campaign using county and municipal emergency managers andcounty extension agencies to ensure that citizens are made aware of the potential danger of using tainted kerosene.
Pittsburgh Terminals Corporation also asked the Governor’s Office for help. This week, the Rendell administration reported that several other state agencies are also helping notify citizens of the kerosene recall. These include the Office of the State Fire Commissioner and the Departments of Agriculture, Health and State Police.
Pittsburgh Terminals Corporation will continue to be vigilant in its efforts to notify the public of this recall and collect all kerosene that was purchased between May 1, 2008 and August 19, 2008.
The nine new Kerosene Recall Collection Centers are:
BFS Foods (WV) Sheetz (OH)
169 Fairchance Road 15744 St. Clair Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26508 East Liverpool, OH 43920
Sheetz (OH) Sheetz (OH)
20 West Waterloo Road 6941 State Route 44
Akron, OH 44319 Ravenna, OH 44266
Sheetz (PA) Buy ‘n Fly (PA)
4816 Buffalo Road 3800 Walnut Street
Erie, PA 16510 McKeesport, PA 15132
Jack’s Independent Service (PA) Mercer Mini Mart (PA)
1121 Wallace Run Road 807 Mercer Road
Darlington, PA 16115 Beaver Falls, PA 15010
Uni-Mart (PA)
6th Street at Beaver Avenue
Ellwood City, PA 16117
There are 16 other Kerosene Recall Collection Centers in Pennsylvania and 1 in West Virginia:
Reed Oil Company Harned Oil Company
511 Montgomery Avenue 10470 Pymatuning Avenue
New Castle, PA 16102 Conneaut Lake, PA 16316
Bradigan's Inc. Veado’s
114 S. Water Street Ext. 181 Hadley Road
Kittanning, PA 16201 Greenville, PA 16125
Export Fuel Company Inc. PPC Lubricants, Inc.
231 York Lane 150 Bonnie Drive
Export, PA 15632 Butler, PA 16001
PPC Lubricants Inc. Gnagey Gas & Oil, Inc.
725 S. Main Street (BLDG#5) 8 Gardner Street
Greensburg, PA 15601 Uniontown, PA 15401
Jacobs Petroleum Products Health Oil Co.
424 S. Washington Street 5609 State Route #8
Waynesburg, PA 15370 Harrisville, PA 16038
Glassmere Fuel Service Shortway Service
Dispatch Trailer 311 Jackson Street
1967 Saxonburg Blvd. Reynoldsville, PA 15851
Tarentum, PA15084
Klasen Oil Pittsburgh Terminals Corp.
2988 Old Highway 322 9 Thorn Street
Cochranton, PA 16314 Coraopolis, PA 15108
Bulk Terminal Storage Erie Petroleum Inc./Shell
100 Speers Street 1502 Greengarden Road
Belle Vernon, PA 15012 Erie, PA 16501
Valley Fuels Inc. (WV)
Bull Run Road
Masontown, WV 26542
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