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Location: Geismar, LA
Final Report Released On: 05/27/2025

A heat exchanger rupture resulted in the release of hydrogen fluoride (HF) gas, chlorine gas, and various other process fluids. No injurie...
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Location: Lake Charles, LA
Final Report Released On: 04/24/2023

On Thursday August 27, 2020, a fire occurred at Bio-Lab’s Lake Charles facility in Westlake, LA. Th...
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Location: Deridder, LA
Final Report Released On: 04/24/2018
On February 8, 2017, three contractors were fatally injured and seven contractors sustained injuries in an explosion at the Packaging Corporation of America facility in DeRidder, LA. The fatally ...
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Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Final Report Released On: 09/18/2017

On November 22, 2016, an isobutane release occurred in the sulfuric acid alkylation unit at the ExxonMobil Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana which resulted in four serious injuries to workers...
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Location: Geismar, LA
Final Report Released On: 10/19/2016
A fire and explosion occurred on Thursday June 13, 2013, which fatally injured two workers at the William Olefins, Inc., plant located in Geismar, Louisiana....
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Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Final Report Released On: 08/08/2005
Company: Honeywell
On July 20, 2003, there was a release of chlorine gas from the Honeywell refrigerant manufacturing plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The accident resulted in the hospitalization of four plant work...
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Location: Pitkin, LA
Final Report Released On: 09/21/2000
Company: Sonat Exploration Co.
At approximately 6:15 p.m. on March 4, 1998, a catastrophic vessel failure and fire occurred near Pitkin, Louisiana, at the Temple 22-1 Common Point Separation Facility owned by Sonat Exploration...
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