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The Dow Chemical Company, Texas Operations

Parent: The Dow Chemical Company · EPA RMP facility · Freeport, TX

The Dow Chemical Company, Texas Operations is regulated under the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (§112(r)) because it stores or uses hazardous chemicals above threshold quantities. It has 12 reportable chemical accident(s) on record, causing 1 death(s) and 10 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
2010-05-25Gas release010Maintenance
2010-05-17Spill040Human error, Maintenance
2010-03-10Gas release010Upset condition
2009-10-25Spill00130Equipment failure
2008-05-14Gas release010Equipment failure, Improper procedure
2008-04-15Gas release010Improper procedure
2008-04-11Gas release010Human error, Improper procedure
2007-11-13Gas release010Improper procedure
2007-05-01Gas release, Fire000
2007-03-08Gas release, Reactive000Maintenance
2006-11-15Gas release100Equipment failure, Improper procedure
2005-06-26Fire000Equipment 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.