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Butterball, LLC

Parent: Maxwell Farms · EPA RMP facility · Mt. Olive, NC

Butterball, LLC 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 1 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
2002-09-01Gas release, Spill0121Human error, Improper procedure
2002-08-13Spill000Equipment failure, Human error
2002-07-02Spill000Equipment failure
2002-06-26Gas release000Equipment failure, Maintenance
2002-04-30Spill000Equipment failure, Human 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.