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The Premcor Refining Group Inc., a Valero Company

Parent: Valero Energy Corporation · EPA RMP facility · Memphis, TN

The Premcor Refining Group Inc., a Valero Company is regulated under the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (§112(r)) because it stores or uses hazardous chemicals above threshold quantities. It has 12 reportable chemical accident(s) on record, causing 0 death(s) and 12 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
2006-03-05Gas release0100Human error, Improper procedure
2006-02-01Gas release000Human error, Process design failure
2005-08-12Gas release000Equipment failure
2005-07-03Gas release000
2005-05-04Spill000
2005-04-14Gas release, Spill000Equipment failure
2003-10-12Gas release020Equipment failure, Human error
2003-07-09Gas release000Equipment failure
2002-10-18Gas release000Equipment failure
2002-08-27Gas release000Equipment failure
2002-06-03Gas release000Equipment failure
2002-05-07Gas release000Human 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.