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Ciniza Refinery

Parent: Giant Industries Arizona Inc. · EPA RMP facility · Jamestown, NM

Ciniza 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 17 reportable chemical accident(s) on record, causing 0 death(s) and 3 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
1999-05-31Gas release000Maintenance
1999-05-02Gas release010Human error
1999-02-26Gas release000Human error, Maintenance
1999-02-21Gas release000Human error, Maintenance
1999-01-30Gas release000
1999-01-16Gas release000Maintenance
1997-12-25Gas release000
1997-06-10Spill000Human error
1996-08-19Gas release000Improper procedure, Maintenance
1996-06-10Spill000Equipment failure
1996-04-05Fire000Human error, Overpressurization
1995-12-27Spill000
1995-07-07Gas release000Human error
1995-06-24Gas release000
1995-06-23Gas release010Improper procedure, Unsuitable equipment
1994-10-18Spill000Human error
1994-07-16Explosion010Equipment 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.