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Blanchard Refining Company LLC - Galveston Bay Ref

Parent: Marathon Petroleum Corporation · EPA RMP facility · Texas City, TX

Blanchard Refining Company LLC - Galveston Bay Ref is regulated under the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (§112(r)) because it stores or uses hazardous chemicals above threshold quantities. It has 3 reportable chemical accident(s) on record, causing 0 death(s) and 5 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
2016-09-07Gas release030Maintenance
2016-08-19Gas release010Maintenance
2014-02-21Gas release, Fire010Improper procedure, Maintenance

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.