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Great Lakes Chemical, South Plant

Parent: Great Lakes Chemical Corporation · EPA RMP facility · El Dorado, AR

Great Lakes Chemical, South Plant is regulated under the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (§112(r)) because it stores or uses hazardous chemicals above threshold quantities. It has 10 reportable chemical accident(s) on record, causing 0 death(s) and 11 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
2004-05-27Gas release020Equipment failure
2003-10-13Spill010Equipment failure, Maintenance
2003-01-07Gas release010Human error, Maintenance
2002-09-24Gas release, Spill010Equipment failure, Human error
2002-03-11Gas release010Equipment failure
2001-06-30Gas release010Improper procedure, Process design failure
2000-11-01Spill010Human error
2000-03-16Gas release010Human error
1999-10-06Spill010Human error
1999-08-20Gas release010Human 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.