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CITGO Petroleum Corporation-Refinery

EPA RMP facility · Lake Charles, LA

CITGO Petroleum Corporation-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 1 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
2016-08-27Gas release010Human error, Upset condition
2016-07-12Fire000Equipment failure
2016-03-11Fire000Equipment failure
2015-07-04Gas release, Fire000Equipment failure
2013-11-07Fire000Equipment failure
2013-09-21Explosion000Equipment 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.