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Parent: The Dow Chemical Company · EPA RMP facility · Freeport, TX
The Dow Chemical Company, Texas Operations is regulated under the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (§112(r)) because it stores or uses hazardous chemicals above threshold quantities. It has 6 reportable chemical accident(s) on record. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.
| Date | Type | Deaths | Injuries | Evacuated | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999-01-08 | Gas release | 0 | 0 | 0 | Equipment failure, Overpressurization |
| 1998-10-10 | Gas release | 0 | 0 | 0 | Equipment failure |
| 1998-07-01 | Gas release | 0 | 0 | 0 | Equipment failure |
| 1998-03-04 | Gas release | 0 | 0 | 0 | Human error |
| 1997-08-05 | Gas release | 0 | 0 | 0 | Equipment failure |
| 1997-06-06 | Gas release | 0 | 0 | 0 | Human error, Maintenance |
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.