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Domtar Paper Company, LLC-Hawesville Mill

Parent: Domtar Paper Company, LLC · EPA RMP facility · Hawesville, KY

Domtar Paper Company, LLC-Hawesville Mill is regulated under the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (§112(r)) because it stores or uses hazardous chemicals above threshold quantities. It has 13 reportable chemical accident(s) on record. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
2009-07-27Spill000Improper procedure
2008-04-23Spill000Process design failure
2007-03-24Spill000Equipment failure, Maintenance
2007-02-21Spill000Human error, Maintenance
2006-05-28Spill000Equipment failure
2006-03-27Spill000Equipment failure
2005-09-26Spill000Equipment failure
2005-09-23Spill000Equipment failure
2005-02-22Spill000Equipment failure
2004-12-05Spill000Equipment failure
2004-09-28Spill000Equipment failure
2004-06-18Spill000Equipment failure
2004-02-15Spill000Equipment failure

About this data

The EPA Risk Management Program (Clean Air Act §112(r)) requires facilities with large quantities of hazardous chemicals to file Risk Management Plans, including a 5-year accident history. EPA keeps this statutorily-public data available only via FOIA / reading rooms; this page mirrors the FOIA'd dataset (institution-level only — no personal contact information).

Source: EPA RMP (FOIA mirror via the Data Liberation Project). License: CC0 1.0.