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The Valero Memphis Refinery

Parent: Valero Refining Company-Tennessee, LLC · EPA RMP facility · Memphis, TN

The Valero Memphis Refinery is regulated under the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (§112(r)) because it stores or uses hazardous chemicals above threshold quantities. It has 6 reportable chemical accident(s) on record, causing 0 death(s) and 10 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
2006-03-05Gas release0100Human error, Improper procedure
2006-02-01Gas release000Human error, Process design failure
2005-08-12Gas release000Equipment failure
2005-07-03Gas release000
2005-05-04Spill000
2005-04-14Gas release, Spill000Equipment 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.