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The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is authorized by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and became operational in January 1998. The Senate legislative history states: "The principal role of the new chemical safety board is to investigate accidents to determine the conditions and circumstances which led up to the event and to identify the cause or causes so that similar events might be prevented."
The earliest floodplain map located in the Chemical Safety Board investigation, was from September 1985, and indicated the plant was in "Zone C - Area of Minimal Flooding". A November 1996 update to the floodplain map, placed most of the facility into "Other Areas - Zone X - Areas determined to be outside the 500-year floodplain".
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board released its final report on the incident on October 11, 2022. [1] The report stated that a corroded elbow pipe, installed in 1973, ruptured and caused the initial leak. PES announced it would halt operations completely on June 26, 2019, and filed for bankruptcy on July 22.
The tanker truck, which was carrying caustic anhydrous ammonia, was drained and moved to a “secure location” for a National Transportation Safety Board investigation, authorities said late ...
The United States Chemical Safety Board, or USCSB, or CSB, released their final report on the incident on December 29, 2022, saying that the incident "could have been prevented," citing that the debris that was ejected into the air and hit the asphalt tank which caused the fire, could have hit a tank of highly hazardous hydrogen fluoride, since ...
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board, the agency probing the Norfolk Southern Ohio derailment since 3 February 2023, reported that responding authorities became concerned ...
Following these events, on August 17, 2005, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) issued an urgent recommendation that BP commission an independent panel to investigate the safety culture and management systems at BP North America. [98] A blue-ribbon panel was assembled, led by former U.S. Secretary of State James A ...
[4] [5] The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) launched investigations to determine how and why the heat exchanger failed. [4] [6] The Chemical Safety Board concluded that a standby heat exchanger had filled with hydrocarbon. This heat exchanger was ...