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Accident # | 139107 |
State Police # | 12-02474 |
Accident Date | 2012-04-24 |
Report Date | 2012-04-30 |
Follow-up Date | 0000-00-00 |
Follow-up: | No |
Pollutant | Duration | Point Source | Greenhouse Gas | Criteria Pollutant | Ozone forming chemical | Amount of Release |
Crude Oil | 2h 35m | Leaking head on exchanger | NO | NO | NO | 28.9 gallons |
Accident Classified As: Below Reportable Quantity (BRQ)
A head on the exchanger leaked, and material was released to concrete and to the sewage catch basin.
The catch basin was damned off, and they vacuumed up the chemicals. Immediate and initial reports to the LDEQ hotline indicate that this accident released more than 10 pounds of benzene, 100 pounds of naphthalene, 100 pounds of cresol, and 100 pounds of biphenyl. Many of these are RQ. However, in the written report sent by ExxonMobil on 4/30/12, ExxonMobil has determined that no RQs were exceeded, and that only 28.9 gallons of crude oil was spilled due to prompt incident response to mitigate the event duration.
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