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Houston Chemical Complex (HCC)

Parent: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP · EPA RMP facility · Pasadena, TX

Houston Chemical Complex (HCC) is regulated under the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (§112(r)) because it stores or uses hazardous chemicals above threshold quantities. It has 3 reportable chemical accident(s) on record, causing 3 death(s) and 164 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
2000-03-27Fire, Explosion11290Equipment failure, Human error
1999-08-01Fire020Equipment failure, Human error
1999-06-23Fire, Explosion2330Equipment 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.