BLM Investigates After Company Sprays Pesticide On Public Land Without License . News | OPB

 "Since 2010, state and federal agencies awarded Applebee Aviation more than $1 million in contracts to apply fertilizer and pesticides on public land in Oregon and Washington.4 During that same span, Applebee Aviation tallied more complaints, violations and vehicle crashes than any other aerial pesticide operator in Oregon, according to state and federal records.

Complaints are not rare for companies in the business of spraying chemicals on Oregon forestland, which is both highly visible and controversial. Many licensed operators have at least one complaint against them, according to Oregon Department of Agriculture data.

Applebee Aviation has 15, more than any other aerial pesticide operator in the state.

Applebee also has been cited for violations in four different cases in Oregon and one in Washington since 2010. In those cases, Applebee Aviation staff failed to review pesticide labels before applying them, allowed chemicals to drift onto a bicyclist and sprayed a weed killer toxic to fish over a creek where salmon and steelhead spawn. Two other cases are pending.


Also during the past six years, Applebee Aviation has been involved in three crashes, according to FAA data. One was fatal.7

Meanwhile, Applebee Aviation has won nearly $1 million in bids for aerial herbicide spraying from the Washington Department of Natural Resources over the past six years.8 In 2015, the company won two contracts from the Oregon Department of Forestry, totaling near $50,000.9

Kevin Vanderlei, a former Applebee Aviation truck driver and pesticide handler, claims he was exposed to pesticides during jobs on DNR land. He recalls refilling a helicopter with broken nozzles, which caused pesticides to drip on him.

“I’m not talking about an occasional drip,” he said. “I’m talking about being doused in chemical every time I had to fill the helicopter.”"

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Health History

September 2014 - Arctic Regional Slope Corporation (ARSC) A "Fit For Work" physical was required to be allowed in the remote oil fields of Alaska. This test is very extensive in regards to respiratory and heart function due to the fact the nearest hospital isn't a quick ambulance ride away

December 2014 - Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 2ed Class Medical Certificate - A1 Health



April 215 - Mercy Medical Center, Roseburg, OR ER "Acute Chemical Exposure"

Whistleblower films Oregon timber workers getting sprayed with toxic herbicides | Righting Injustice

"At first Mr. Ivy wasn’t concerned. He listened to the assurances of company foresters and helicopter pilots who told him the chemicals wouldn’t harm him, and he trusted his strong physical constitution and good health.

After being repeatedly soaked with the chemicals, however, Mr. Ivy’s health began to deteriorate. He started taking refuge in his truck, closing the windows and doors, whenever the spraying occurred. Within weeks he was in an isolation unit of Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg, Ore., diagnosed with a spectrum of health problems including burning lungs, a hacking cough, and “acute contact dermatitis” doctors attributed to “acute chemical exposure.”

To this day, Mr. Ivy coughs up blood and is pursuing a workers compensation claim with Applebee’s.

“When I was on site I was thinking I’d bounce back really quick,” Mr. Ivy told The Oregonian/OregonLive. “But it’s got me a little worried. I can’t breathe right.”

According to The Oregonian/Oregon Live, one of the weed killers that rained down on him and other workers was Velossa, which can cause irreversible eye damage. Another chemical used, 2 4-D, irritates skin and causes dizziness when inhaled.

Seneca Jones and Applebee Aviation coat the forest in herbicide to kill any weeds that compete with tree saplings. The timber company has just a brief window of time to control the weeds, so they douse the forest with chemicals heavily and frequently."

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Darryl Ivy Interview: People Don't Realize That These Chemicals Are a Threat

Kathleen Hallal, GMO Free News: There are other people around and there's like a lady with the kid with the dog kind of in the stream and you guys are working and you're dumping the bucket that's been full of.... Darryl: I think it was atrazine being rinsed and filled in the stream and the truck's leaking all over the place right next to the stream and everyone knows what's going on and what's surprising to me is how casual everybody else is while handling these chemicals you know. Kathleen: We know about Tyrone Hayes and his findings of atrazine especially in streams you know changing the sexes of frogs and causing deformations and wreaking all kinds of havoc and how the company Syngenta hired private investigators to harass him and try to ruin his life and get him fired from Berkeley so we know the hazards of these chemicals because brave scientists like Evan (E.G. Vallianatos) and like Tyrone Hayes have been brave enough to speak out about these chemicals and you kind of had an idea, right? You're not feeling so well, you're around these chemicals and you're not feeling so well, but what's interesting is how other people who are handling them are so casual about it. She has her baby right near where they're putting it in the stream, and her dog. I think that at least for me what strikes me about your story is how... how many people don't realize that these chemicals are a threat. You were feeling it, you were seeing it, and you'd been to a talk prior to the job so you knew that something was going on that people needed to be aware of, so you started filming this. So why don't you talk a little bit about that? Were you the only person that knew that things were being mishandled? Darryl: No, everybody knows that. In some of my videos my coworker --the other driver-- you know, he also admits to being sprayed and getting welts on his arms. That was one of the reasons I discounted maybe that these chemicals are really, really bad because the other driver had been there for quite a bit longer. My pilot had been there for twenty years, been spraying and he was a really, really good guy and he didn't look blotchy, and he didn't look like he had any what we would all assume is somebody who's been dipped in a chemical toxic bucket.

Seneca Timber forestry representative, who is monitoring the job site, with her child and dog at the creek we used to get water and wash buckets. (See Video)

He seemed normal. And so I just assumed it was all normal. But, as far as the forester there with her child, that was really disheartening because I tell people I'm 45 years old. I'm done making babies but if these chemicals, in days, can put me into an emergency room with the hazmat team trying to burn my clothes and me in a decontamination unit getting zapped by this high powered water and then a special ventilation room as if I had ebola, you know, its really disheartening to think what would these chemicals do to a pregnant lady or developing child? And here I am driving Kathleen: Go back...you skipped a really interesting part of your story . So you eventually got very sick, and you were put in the hospital ? Darryl: Oh yes, seventeen days in. I could no longer function properly. I could not breathe right. I had lost so much sleep that I actually drove off... -- I have never done this in my life ever --- I fell asleep on a mountain road with thousands of gallons of chemicals in the back of my truck and have not admitted this to anybody up until right now. I was so tired--- so sleep-deprived and so messed up by the chemicals--- that I drove off the side of the road and just by blessing it was a big muddy little swampy area that I drove into and another truck was able to come back hook up to me, and pull me out. I poured bottles of water over my head and I realized Holy Moly! I can't even operate... I can't even even drive this truck on a forest road much less on a road where there's other people that I could run into, and it really started hit me hard. I had no choice but go to the hospital. I could not function anymore. And it was disgruntling, because normally I'm more resilient than the guy next to me. I always try to be the..you know in Alaska, we have a saying you know you don't have to be the fastest runner you just have to if a bear's chasing you you just have to run faster than the slower guy and I didn't want to be that guy. Kathleen: So you end up in the hospital and what's their reaction when they see you? Darryl: They made me stand outside the emergency room. They didn't even want me in the emergency room. And this is a testament to the two different sides of the stories that I heard from Beyond Toxics that night at the town hall meeting,and of course you know I've learned since then a lot of people would like to tell you these chemicals are very, very safe and then some of these people--- when you show up in the emergency room--- and they do research on the federal data sheets, make you stand outside the emergency room until they get their decontamination room ready and they strip you naked and take your clothes. They put them in hazmat buckets and I mean it goes to show that some people that are in the industry that are receiving financial monies will tell you that these chemicals are just fine and then a gentleman with Roseburg Fire Department his only job---his oath--- is to protect the public and not to protect the chem, not to say anything bad about the chemical---, His job was basically to protect people in that emergency room, to isolate me from them and so he knew what he was dealing with. And so I have to take sides with the public health officials that these chemicals are bad for you They treated me as if I just came out of an ebola situation and I thank them for it. They did a great job.

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Aviation company stops spraying, faces fines - Oregon - Capital Press

 "“Applebee Aviation demonstrated that it will ignore or fail to comply with any or all pesticide application requirements if compliance will cost it money,” the agency said in a civil penalty order.

The ODA claims that the company’s owner, Michael Applebee, asked the agency for an exception to the license suspension because the BLM contract was worth $3 million but was told such exceptions aren’t possible.

By disregarding the suspension order, Applebee Aviation has undermined the “level playing field” for pesticide applicators who follow the rules, which justifies “immediate and severe consequences,” ODA said in a court filing.

“Defendants’ actions threaten to cause irreparable harm by sending a message to the pesticide industry that pesticide operators may continue to operate even when they intentionally and blatantly violate the law,” the filing said."

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The Curry Coastal Pilot - Company stopped from spraying pesticides in Oregon

 "Oregon has the weakest laws in the Pacific Northwest regarding buffer zones and spraying operations, according to the ODA, the agency in charge of monitoring and implementing legislation changes

Laurie Bernstein, a retired fish biologist with the Forest Service, said in May 2014, that spray restrictions do not address non-fish stream contamination at all.

Washington, a similar state in regards to timber, topography and precipitation, has buffers of 25 to 200 feet; Idaho has 100-foot buffers around streams. And in Washington, sprayers can’t come within 200 feet of a home; in Idaho it’s a half-mile.

Even the Forest Service does not allow aerial spraying on their lands in Oregon.

Residents have said they feel state laws protects spray operators better than citizens; indeed, this is the only time the ODA has ever gone to court seeking a restraining order against a chemical applicator.

Sweeney and his neighbors — some of whom are multi-generational loggers and have said they understand why the chemical applications are needed — are still fighting for stricter laws, particularly around schools, residences and waterways.

They’re fighting for their property rights for the health of tributaries that provide valuable salmon habitat and drinking water and the health of their families.

“This investigation gives the public an insider’s view of the deplorable safety standards for poisonous pesticides that occur in Oregon,” Arkin said. “State agencies know very well that these violations are common, but it took a whistleblower’s documentation to bring any inquiry and action.”"

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Model Civil Aviation Regulations (MCARs) Version 2.8

Federal Aviation Regulation (FAA) Part 137.35 states, “No persons may dispense, or cause to be dispensed, from an aircraft, any material or substance in a manner that creates a hazard to persons or property on the surface.”[4]

Advisory Circular 137-1A, which explains the certification process for agricultural aircraft operations, further elaborates on this issue:

(2) The pilot should brief the groundcrew concerning the chemical being used and the necessary protective clothing. The protective equipment (rubber gloves, apron, boots, respirator, etc.) should be tailored to the environment and particular chemical in use.

When using flaggers, pilots should be able to brief them concerning the potential hazard of the pesticide being dispensed, and should indicate that they equip themselves with the appropriate protective equipment.

(3) Pilots should also be aware that persons working closely with or handling pesticides should change clothes and bathe at the end of the operation, or immediately if the pesticide contacts their skin. Persons handling pesticides should wear clean work clothes daily.[5]

 According to Chapter 1 of Advisory Circular 137-1A, before being approved for certification, applicants are expected to demonstrate a knowledge of the rules and regulations pertaining to the handling of “economic poisons.”

Chapter 1 also addresses recordkeeping requirements as well as the reasons for revoking certification including “unsafe operating procedures or practices.” [6]

After weed killers drift, Oregon gets tough with helicopter sprayer | OregonLive.com

"The Department of Agriculture has long been criticized by residents affected by off-target sprays for failing to aggressively enforce state laws designed to protect them. That appears to be changing, something advocates say is overdue.

"They really had the spotlight turned on them in the state legislature this year," said Lisa Arkin, executive director of Beyond Toxics, a Eugene advocacy group. "I think it was a wakeup call for the agency's leader that the culture was completely off the mark."

In the last month, the department also suspended the license of another company, Applebee Aviation, whose questionable practices were exposed by timber whistleblower Darryl Ivy. The state took Applebee Aviation to court to stop it from continuing to spray while its license was revoked. A Washington County Circuit Court judge on Monday extended a temporary injunction prohibiting the company from spraying for another 30 days.

After initially proposing an $1,100 fine and short license revocation, the state last week said it would suspend Applebee's ability to spray for a year and fine it $40,000. The state found that Applebee had sprayed four times in the last month while its license was suspended."

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After weed killers drift, Oregon gets tough with helicopter sprayer | OregonLive.com

Helicopter herbicide sprays are poisoning Oregon…is it rigged or is it rogue? | Beyond Toxics

"Two years ago, there was little public awareness about the common industrial practice of using helicopters to spray thousands of acres of forests with herbicides. That was before the Cedar Valley spray case in which over forty people reported being sickened by exposure to a chemical soup raining down from an aerial herbicide spray. After all, who could really imagine that Oregon’s timber companies routinely hire helicopter pilots, dozens of hazardous chemical truck drivers and pesticide applicators to carry out a program of blanketing forestlands and streams with toxic chemicals? It seemed unbelievable, until the public learned more.

When the brave folks from Cedar Valley came forward to tell their story, regulators and many legislators scoffed. “That’s just one rogue pilot, a solitary incident!” Industry lobbyists claimed, “We follow all applicable laws!”  However, now their claims have been blown out of the water by the Applebee Aviation case. Applebee handles a large percentage of the contracts for aerial herbicide sprays in Oregon. They are hired by companies ranging from privately-owned Seneca Jones Timber to the State Department of Forestry.

Applebee Aviation’s illegal activities were exposed by Darryl Ivy, an aviation mechanic and truck driver licensed to pilot hazardous waste trucks. He called Beyond Toxics for help after he attended one of our Herbicide and Health town hall meetings in Roseburg last April. He was very sick and he was shocked at what Applebee Aviation and Seneca Timber asked workers to do, and endure, as private forestry workers.  Ivy was working for Applebee Aviation driving trucks filled with jet fuel, pesticides and other chemicals on public roads and logging roads throughout southern Oregon. Ivy wasn’t really sure he wanted to call us, because he is a man used to working with dangerous chemicals in perilous situations like the North Slope of Alaska. What he witnessed compelled him to act."

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Oregon seeks to revoke license of pesticide spraying company :: WRAL.com

By GOSIA WOZNIACKA, Associated Press

PORTLAND, ORE. — The Oregon Department of Agriculture is seeking to revoke the license of a company that conducts aerial pesticide spraying on private timberlands, after the company disregarded a previous license suspension.

According to an order issued this week, Applebee Aviation's pesticide operator license would be revoked for one year. The company would also be fined $40,000.

Company owner Mike Applebee can still appeal the order. He didn't immediately return a call for comment.

The state last month suspended the company's license over worker protection violations and fined it $1,100. The violations came to light after a member of the spraying crew said he had to regularly take shelter from herbicides sprayed from a helicopter in Douglas County this spring. Truck driver Darryl Ivy quit his job and went to a hospital complaining of blisters in his mouth and a swollen airway.

He shot hundreds of photos and video of the spraying, which were first released to The Oregonian.

In addition to the license suspension from the Department of Agriculture, Applebee was also fined $8,850 by the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division, and another $14,100 by the Oregon Department of Transportation."

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Pesticide Spray Victims Tell Their Stories | Jefferson Public Radio

Darryl Ivy and Kevin Vanderlei share stories of spraying.

Concerns about aerial spraying of pesticides on Oregon forest land reached a new level recently, when a court ordered Applebee Aviation to stop spraying pesticides without a license.

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Pesticide Spray Victims Tell Their Stories | Jefferson Public Radio

State to timber whistleblower's former employer: Pay up, shut down | OregonLive.com

"Five months after timber worker Darryl Ivy blew the whistle on his employer's helicopter spray practices in Oregon's forests, the state Department of Agriculture has proposed revoking the company's license and fining it more than $40,000.

 Ivy, a truck driver, spent 17 days this spring on a spray crew in Douglas County, the heart of Oregon's timber country. Videos and photos he shot show that he routinely hid inside his pickup truck while herbicides rained down. The milky chemical mix stained Ivy's windshield white and turned his phlegm red."

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Temporary restraining order issued against Applebee Aviation

October 12, 2015... The Oregon Department of Agriculture has received a temporary restraining order to immediately stop Applebee Aviation, Inc. of Banks, Oregon from engaging in commercial pesticide activities. The order, issued by Washington County Circuit Court, was sought by ODA after it discovered Applebee Aviation had illegally conducted pesticide applications while its commercial pesticide operator’s license was suspended, an additional violation of Oregon’s Pesticide Control Act. Meanwhile, ODA continues its investigation of the most recent violative activity and expects to take additional regulatory action against the company.

On September 25, 2015, ODA issued an immediate license suspension and a $1,100 civil penalty and to Applebee Aviation for performing aerial herbicide application activities in a faulty, careless, or negligent manner. Applebee Aviation was informed that it was prohibited by law from engaging in pesticide application activities until such time as its license was reinstated. Subsequently on October 8, 2015, ODA became aware that Applebee Aviation performed an aerial application of pesticides on Bureau of Land Management lands north of Christmas Valley in Lake County on or around October 1 and 2. ODA also learned that Applebee Aviation engaged in pesticide application activities in Astoria in Clatsop County on September 26. The temporary restraining was granted because Applebee Aviation knowingly and willfully ignored ODA’s express instructions and engaged in pesticide application activities even though its license was suspended.

ODA’s original regulatory action followed the completion of a pesticide use investigation stemming from a complaint of exposure received by an Applebee Aviation worker present during aerial pesticide application activity on and around forestlands in Douglas County in April 2015. ODA coordinated with Oregon OSHA, which conducted its own investigation. ODA found that Applebee Aviation had not provided workers with the required personal protection equipment, water or other decontamination materials for use in the event of exposure, or training on how to minimize hazards to safety and health while working around pesticides. All are violations of the pesticide label. Oregon OSHA, which is the lead agency on worker protection matters, issued fines totaling $8,850 for violations committed by Applebee Aviation.

For more information, contact Bruce Pokarney at (503) 986-4559.

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coastrange: BLM knew or should have know that they had no license and should have suspended the contract. If BLM was really pressuring a company without a license to spray, they should also be found in violation of Oregon Forrest Practices Act.

Oregon court orders Applebee Aviation to stop aerial pesticide spraying | Local | Eugene, Oregon

"PORTLAND — The Oregon Department of Agriculture has received a temporary restraining order to stop a company from conducting aerial pesticide spraying on private timberlands.

 The order was issued by Washington County Circuit Court on Monday. It comes after the state last month suspended Applebee Aviation’s pesticide operator license over worker protection violations. Despite the suspension, Applebee Aviation performed aerial applications."

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Oregon Investigates Spray Crew Exposure To Herbicide

JEFF BARNARD, Associated Press

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Two state agencies are investigating aerial spraying operations on private timberlands in the southern Coast Range, where a member of the spraying crew says he had to regularly take shelter from herbicides sprayed from a helicopter.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division said Thursday they were alerted through the Oregon Emergency Response System after truck driver Darryl Ivy quit his job on the spraying crew and went to a hospital last month complaining of blisters in his mouth and a swollen airway.

 Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg notified the Roseburg Fire Department on April 26 because Ivy’s case involved hazardous chemicals, Assistant Fire Chief Steve Brewer said."

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Oregon agencies cite multiple pesticide violations and levy fines against helicopter company in a worker whistleblower case | Beyond Toxics

"The crackdown came after Darryl Ivy, who worked as an Applebee Aviation hazardous materials truck driver, became a whistle blower reporting on dangerous and unsafe practices he witnesses during numerous aerial spray operations.



Ivy recorded videos of the illegal activities on his cell phone before he went to an emergency room for treatment of illness due to pesticide exposure.



“I had sores and rashes, was spitting up blood and felt very sick after three weeks on the job,” said Ivy. “I’ve worked in a lot of dangerous occupations before, but had never seen such careless treatment of workers and poor work practices that put all of us, nearby communities and the environment at risk of pesticide contamination.” 




“I felt it was my duty to report what I witnessed to the authorities,” said Ivy. “The results of their investigation proves that Applebee’s pesticide practices are illegal.”"



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These crappy cell-phone videos could save people from getting weed killer sprayed on them | Fusion

"The cell phone videos are shaky, and clearly taken in secret. Deep within Oregon’s expansive timber country, Darryl Ivy was temporarily working as part of a pesticide crew, spraying the ground with weed killers from a truck, in order to let the fir seedlings grow free of natural competition.

Overhead, the videos show, helicopters sweep in to help with the job — dumping chemicals on Ivy and his fellow workers in the process. “This is the shitty part of my job,” he says of an approaching helicopter in one of the videos, which were obtained by the Oregonian. ”

All these hazardous warning labels, and I have no protective gear.”

Ivy’s undercover videos have helped catapult the issue of chemical spraying into the forefront of Oregon politics, not just for worker’s rights issues—spraying workers with chemicals is clearly illegal according to state laws—but because many rural residents who live in lumber country are subjected to the same sprayings, with no legal protections. It’s the latest case in a long list of people reporting health complications after being sprayed by pesticides."

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Pesticide Spraying Firm Penalized After Chemical-Exposure Incident . News | OPB

"Two Oregon state agencies have fined helicopter company Applebee Aviation close to $10,000 and suspended the company’s license to spray pesticides after a worker complained of chemical exposure in Douglas County.



 Both the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health and the Oregon Department of Agriculture opened investigations in the case brought by Darryl Ivy, a truck driver and pesticide handler who was exposed to herbicides on the job and who released hundreds of photos and videos in alleging unsafe conditions during aerial herbicide sprays."



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Pesticide Spraying Firm Penalized After Chemical-Exposure Incident . News | OPB

Citizens Report: Company helicopter sprays toxic chemicals over employees

They chemicals sprayed on Darryl Ivy had him frequently hacking up blood

Darryl Ivy is tough, but not tougher than toxic chemicals used to wipe out large quantities of unwanted weeds. As herbicidal chemicals poured down on him from a helicopter, Ivy took shelter in his pickup truck, only to cough up blood days later.

Ivy’s Experience

A strong man with a special license that allowed him to transport toxic chemicals, Ivy found a job working for Applebee Aviation in Oregon’s Douglas County to help pay for his wife’s medical bills. For 17 days, Ivy experienced a regular rainstorm of hazardous chemicals.

He was smart enough to document the dangerous working conditions, despite the fact that the staff at Applebee Aviation tried to convince him the spraying would not cause him any harm. He provided photos and videos that illustrate the corruption of one company within the timber industry, but without proof, it is impossible to tell how widespread this kind of conduct truly it is.

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The Oregonian: Whistleblower videos reveal helicopter spraying workers with weed killers

By Rob Davis | The Oregonian/OregonLive May 20, 2015
Exposed atop the barren clearcut in Oregon's coastal mountains, he hid in the only place he could. A helicopter circled overhead, spraying a fine mist of toxic weed killers.

Darryl Ivy took refuge inside his pickup: Windows up, doors shut.

 The scene was captured on camera, one of more than 200 videos Ivy recorded on his smartphone. 

Again and again, herbicides rained down. The milky chemical mix stained Ivy's windshield white and turned his phlegm red.

 Ivy, a truck driver, spent 17 days this spring on a spray crew in Douglas County, the heart of Oregon's timber country. He got sprayed so often it became routine.

Don't worry about it, Ivy said the pilot told him. It won't hurt you. Read More