Chemical Incident Reporting – Week of 7-15-23

NOTE: See here for series background.

Brazoria County, Texas – 7-13-23

Local news reports: Here, here, and here.

Two pipelines were damaged in a release of ethylene and propylene with resulting explosion and fire. No injuries, valve site destroyed.

May be a CSB reportable. Typically, CSB does not cover pipeline incidents, those are addressed by NTSB. But this was at a pump and storage station which may be covered as a stationary source.

Iberville Parish, La – 7-15-23

Local news reports: Here, here, and here.

Fire and explosions in ethylene glycol unit at refiner.

No deaths, no injuries, no damage estimates yet.

Probably a CSB reportable, depending of damage estimates. I would be very surprise if this does not reach the $1 million statutory floor for reporting.