# Air Products & Chemicals-New Orleans, LA-RMP CAFO-FY2020
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2020 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3602198911`
- **Case Number:** 06-2020-3352
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

A post incident root cause analysis investigation was conducted by Respondent regarding a release incident and fire on May 23, 2019. It was determined that the best-known cause or root cause of the event was operator error and failure to follow established procedures, which is a violation of 40 CFR 68.69(a)(1)(vii).

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*Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*