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CITGO Corpus Christi Refinery East Plant

Parent: CITGO Refining and Chemicals L.P. · EPA RMP facility · Corpus Christi, TX

CITGO Corpus Christi Refinery East 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 7 reportable chemical accident(s) on record, causing 0 death(s) and 4 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
1997-05-26Spill010Maintenance
1997-05-12Gas release, Fire, Explosion000Human error
1996-05-25Spill020
1996-05-21Fire, Explosion010Equipment failure, Human error
1996-03-21Gas release000Upset condition
1995-08-13Spill, Fire000
1995-06-09Gas release, Fire000Unsuitable equipment

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.