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DOW CORNING -- MIDLAND PLANT

Parent: The Dow Chemical Company · EPA RMP facility · MIDLAND, MI

DOW CORNING -- MIDLAND 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 4 reportable chemical accident(s) on record, causing 0 death(s) and 2 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
1998-02-05Spill000Human error, Improper procedure
1997-08-17Spill000Equipment failure, Human error
1997-07-21Gas release010Human error, Improper procedure
1996-06-26Gas 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.