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Great Lakes Chemical, Central Plant

Parent: Chemtura · EPA RMP facility · El Dorado, AR

Great Lakes Chemical, Central Plant is regulated under the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (§112(r)) because it stores or uses hazardous chemicals above threshold quantities. It has 10 reportable chemical accident(s) on record, causing 0 death(s) and 9 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
2011-08-31Spill010Equipment failure, Maintenance
2011-03-10Spill010Maintenance
2011-02-19Spill010Human error
2009-06-29Gas release000Equipment failure
2008-07-28Spill010Equipment failure, Human error
2008-01-30Gas release010Equipment failure
2007-09-24Spill010Human error
2007-07-17Spill010Improper procedure, Management error
2007-01-10Gas release010Equipment failure, Human error
2006-10-15Spill010Human error

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.