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Parent: General Electric Company · EPA RMP facility · Mt. Vernon, IN
GE Plastics Mt. Vernon, 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 3 reportable chemical accident(s) on record, causing 0 death(s) and 2 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.
| Date | Type | Deaths | Injuries | Evacuated | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-07-18 | Gas release, Explosion | 0 | 0 | 0 | Equipment failure, Human error |
| 2004-05-08 | Gas release, Fire, Explosion | 0 | 0 | 0 | Human error, Improper procedure |
| 2003-09-25 | Gas release, Explosion | 0 | 2 | 0 | Human error, 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.