Current as of June 23, 2014

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1 SUMMARY OF EPA REGION 6 GENERAL DUTY CAFOS 1 10/1/2009 Flint Hills Resources Nueces Bay Corrosion inhibitor Bulk tank overflowed during refilling and resulted in release, fire, and one injury Deficiencies in process hazard analyses; lack of unit specific refilling procedure; deficiencies in safe work permit; failure to maintain safe facility and take necessary steps to prevent releases 2 7/12/2010 CITGO Refining and Chemical Company Nueces County $225,000 (GD & RMP) 112(r) inspection conducted ~1 month after fire. Hydrogen fluoride Equipment failure resulted in release of 561 lbs HF, fire, and one injury Failure to maintain safe facility and take necessary steps to prevent releases; lack of written operating procedures 3 2/14/2012 Double B Foods Meridian Plant $40,000 Requires certification of compliance Anhydrous ammonia (5,890 lbs in refrigeration system) No release; section 114 inspection Failure to maintain updated facility plans; failure to develop standard operating procedures; failure to conduct adequate preventative maintenance; failure to identify hazards using hazard assessment techniques; failure to correct and identify process hazards Active

2 4 2/5/2013 Valero Refining Meraux, LA $75,000 (including methane, ethane, isopentane, propane, butane, isobutene, pentane) Piping failure resulted in release of vacuum tower bottoms and fire 5 2/26/2013 Holly Refining & Marketing Tulsa, OK (including ethane, hydrogen, butane, methane, propane, isobutene) Accidental release of SO 2, H 2 S, and NOx due to combination of diesel/hydrogen material and effluent stream prevent accidental releases 6 3/13/2013 Air Products and Chemicals Luling, LA Hydrogen Plant Gasket failure resulted in hydrogen release and two injuries Active

3 7 3/27/2013 BP Products North America Texas City (including atmospheric bottoms liquid, a mixture of resid and heavy gas oil) Line installation resulted in release of 330 bbls atmospheric bottoms liquid and fire prevent accidental releases 8 5/6/2013 Nexeo Solutions Garland Facilities (including toluene, lacolene) Truck tank filling and blending operation resulted in fire, releasing PM, VOCs, SO 2, NOx, CO, H 2 S, PAHs and other HAPs. prevent accidental release 9 5/7/2013 Vann Energy Services Nixon Facility Explosion occurred during preparations to clean fracturing tank and resulted in two injuries while cleaning fracturing tanks Active

4 10 5/9/2013 Dallas Group of America Texas City Facility Hydrochloric acid Tank failure of HCl tank used to feed blending reactor to make NH 4 Cl resulted in release of liquid HCl that immediately vaporized 11 6/27/2013 Akzo Nobel Polymer Chemicals La Porte Facility Improperly performed Magnesium Alkyl Unit maintenance resulted in release of 57,000 lbs of 20% butyl ethyl magnesium and fire Failure to prevent accidental release during unit servicing 12 7/1/2013 Samson Lone Star Terrell Production Facility, Rusk County Lightning strike compromised tanks, released barrels of natural gas condensate and 216 barrels of produced water, and resulted in fire and explosion minimize consequences accidental releases 13 7/9/2013 Western Refining Southwest Jamestown, NM $187,500 Terminates upon payment of penalty Releases of potassium hydroxide, light hydrocarbons, H2S and resulting fire Active

5 14 8/26/2013 Kinder Morgan Production Snyder Plant (including methane, ethane, propane, butane) Welding accident resulted in release of sweet dehydrated natural gas, flash fire, and one injury prevent accidental releases by not ensuring safety during hot welding 15 8/29/2013 Premcor Refining Group (Valero) Port Arthur H 2 S Excessive pressure incident resulted in release of lbs H 2 S from sour water tank prevent accidental releases by not communicating with shift supervisor 16 8/29/2013 Calumet Penreco Dickinson Chemical Plant Requires certification of compliance Oleum Accidental release (no additional details provided) Failure to comply with one or more general duties 17 9/12/2013 USDA Edinburg Plant Protection Quarantine Federal Facility Requires certification of decision to build new hydrochloric acid delivery system and implement interim safety measures and Hydrochloric acid Shutoff valve failure resulted in release of 50 gallons of 35% HCl Failure to maintain safe facility by not preventing accidental release Active

6 18 9/16/2013 Motiva Enterprises Convent, LA (including crude oil) Piping failure resulted in release of 73.8 barrels of hot crude oil from vacuum pipe still and fire Failure to prevent accidental release 19 9/25/2013 Wynnewood Refining Wynnewood, OK $86,000 (GD and RMP) Attempted startup resulted in explosion caused by natural gas combustion and two deaths; facility had appointed a person to oversee the RMP and had not responded to two compliance audit findings from 2010 Failure to identify hazards associated with startup; failure to design and maintain safe facility; failure to identify responsible RMP person or position; failure to identify appropriate response to compliance audit findings under RMP 20 1/14/2014 Wagner Oil Acadia Parish, LA Production Site (including produced water containing crude oil) Lightning strike compromised tank and resulted in release (160 barrels of produced water, an undetermined amount of crude oil, and 20 gal lube oil) and fire prevent accidental releases by neither installing lightning protection nor replacing fiberglass with steel tank Active

7 21 3/6/2014 International Paper Texarkana Mill Calcium hypochlorite and weak turpentine solution reacted and resulted in H 2 S, methyl mercaptan, and SO 2 release and fire Failure to prevent accidental release 22 4/14/2014 Pryme Energy Labeau, LA Production Well (including natural gas, condensate, produced water) Static electricity ignited tank vapors at a fiberglass tank (containing natural gas, condensate, and produced water) sampling valve and resulted in fire and one injury minimize consequences of accidental releases by not grounding sample valve on fiberglass receiving tank 23 4/24/2014 Michael Angelo s Gourmet Foods Austin Facility $32,004 Anhydrous ammonia Forklift punctured refrigeration system and resulted in release of 13,800 lbs anhydrous ammonia from refrigeration system Failure to prevent accidental release by not instituting physical barriers to forklift movement near vessels containing extremely hazardous substances; failure to design and maintain facility in a manner that prevents such releases Active