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Accident # | 128125 |
State Police # | 10-07088 |
Accident Date | 2010-12-12 |
Report Date | 2010-12-13 |
Follow-up Date | 0000-00-00 |
Follow-up: | No |
Pollutant | Duration | Point Source | Greenhouse Gas | Criteria Pollutant | Ozone forming chemical | Amount of Release |
Benzene | 1 m | Seal on vapor recovery system | NO | NO | YES | BRQ |
Accident Classified As: Reportable Quantity
A seal malfunction corrected itself.
A potential maximum of 10 pounds of Benzene could have been released but the calculations had not been completed by the time of the call. Incident initiated and comments added during file review after inspection of Exxon Refinery on 8/31/11. This incident occurred at the Exxon Chemical plant. According to a written notificated faxed from Exxon Corp, there was promt incident response to mitigate the event durations, they have determined that no RQS were exceeded. The NRC notification regarding this event was made greater than 1 hour after incident discovery due to telephone difficulties.
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