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Parent: Arch Chemicals, Inc. · EPA RMP facility · Brandenburg, KY
Arch Chemicals, Inc. is regulated under the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (§112(r)) because it stores or uses hazardous chemicals above threshold quantities. It has 9 reportable chemical accident(s) on record, causing 0 death(s) and 1 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.
| Date | Type | Deaths | Injuries | Evacuated | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-11-21 | Gas release | 0 | 0 | 0 | Process design failure |
| 2000-02-22 | Spill | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1999-12-28 | Spill | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1999-09-16 | Gas release | 0 | 0 | 0 | Equipment failure |
| 1999-06-08 | Spill | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1998-05-31 | Gas release | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1998-05-12 | Spill | 0 | 0 | 0 | Equipment failure, Bypass condition |
| 1997-08-20 | Spill | 0 | 0 | 0 | Human error, Overpressurization |
| 1997-01-15 | Spill | 0 | 0 | 0 | Equipment failure, Improper procedure |
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.