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Willoughby Quartz Plant

Parent: Momentive Performance Materials, Quartz Inc. · EPA RMP facility · Willoughby, OH

Willoughby Quartz 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 5 reportable chemical accident(s) on record. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
2023-05-31Gas release000Equipment failure
2023-05-31Gas release000Equipment failure
2020-06-04Spill000Equipment failure
2017-09-08Gas release000Equipment failure, Human error
2017-05-17Gas release000Equipment failure, Overpressurization

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.