Company pays $500,000 fine for asbestos safety violations

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Acompany that illegally handled material containing asbestos at an abandoned automotive brake system component plant in Saginaw has been fined $500,000 and placed on probation for two years.

Applied Partners pleaded guilty to violating asbestos work practice standards under the federal Clean Air Act in demolishing a building at the site.

The company had bought the 65-acre site in 2018, planni…