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Great Lakes Chemical, Central Plant

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

Great Lakes Chemical, Central 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 5 reportable chemical accident(s) on record, causing 0 death(s) and 5 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
2004-08-17Gas release010Human error, Maintenance
2003-06-15Gas release010Equipment failure
2003-05-16Gas release010Equipment failure
2003-05-15Gas release010Human error
2003-03-18Spill010Human error, Maintenance

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.