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Sunoco, Inc. (R&M) - Philadelphia Refinery

Parent: Sunoco, Inc. (R&M) · EPA RMP facility · Philadelphia, PA

Sunoco, Inc. (R&M) - Philadelphia Refinery is regulated under the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (§112(r)) because it stores or uses hazardous chemicals above threshold quantities. It has 5 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
2003-04-04Spill010Equipment failure, Maintenance
2003-01-18Fire, Explosion000Equipment failure, Human error
2000-12-23Gas release, Explosion000Equipment failure, Improper procedure
2000-06-30Explosion000Equipment failure, Process design failure
2000-02-02Gas release, Spill010Equipment failure, Improper procedure

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.