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Exxon Chemical Baytown Chemical Plant

Parent: Exxon Corporation · EPA RMP facility · Baytown, TX

Exxon Chemical Baytown Chemical 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 2 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
1998-06-29Gas release, Fire000Equipment failure, Maintenance
1997-02-24Gas release010Equipment failure, Human 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.