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Air Products & Chemicals-New Orleans, LA-RMP ACO-FY2020

Administrative - Formal · FY2020 · — · Final Order No Penalty · 3602204606

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Case Number
06-2020-3347
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order No Penalty
Multimedia
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

On May 23, 2019, a liquid hydrogen plant at the facility was being started-up following a planned outage. Operators were in the process of pressuring the plant when a purge hose, which inadvertently had been left in service, failed and ignited, resulting in a fire and air release incident.

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