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DSM Chemicals North America, Inc.

Parent: DSM Finance · EPA RMP facility · Augusta, GA

DSM Chemicals North America, 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 8 reportable chemical accident(s) on record. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
2005-07-14Spill000Equipment failure
2004-09-17Spill000Human error
2002-08-18Spill000Equipment failure
2002-07-09Spill000Maintenance
2002-07-07Spill000Equipment failure
2000-06-20Gas release000Equipment failure, Overpressurization
2000-03-15Gas release000Equipment failure, Overpressurization
1999-09-29Gas release000Equipment failure, Overpressurization

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.