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Parent: BP Products North America Inc. · EPA RMP facility · Texas City, TX
BP America, BP Texas City Site 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 16 death(s) and 172 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.
| Date | Type | Deaths | Injuries | Evacuated | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-04-25 | Gas release | 0 | 0 | 0 | Unusual weather |
| 2008-01-14 | Gas release, Explosion | 1 | 2 | 0 | Equipment failure, Overpressurization |
| 2005-08-10 | Gas release | 0 | 0 | 0 | Equipment failure |
| 2005-07-28 | Fire, Explosion | 0 | 0 | 0 | Equipment failure |
| 2005-04-15 | Spill, Fire | 0 | 0 | 0 | Equipment failure |
| 2005-03-23 | Spill, Fire, Explosion | 15 | 170 | 0 | Human error, Improper procedure |
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.