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15-1 Hydrogen

Are you aware of whether any databases exist for accidents that have occurred at power plant sites, including, but not limited to, accidents that involve chemical spills, hydrogen accidents, fuel oil accidents, and/or ammonia accidents? If so, pleas

RESPONSE 15-1

 

The United State Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) maintains a database called “Enforcement and Compliance History Online” (ECHO). The purpose of this database is used for maintaining toxic releases for all facilities in the United States. The URL for the USEPA ECHO database is located here: https://echo.epa.gov/.

The Right-to-Know (RTK) Network is a database that provides free access to numerous databases and resources on the environment, including spills and accidents. The URL for the RTK network is located here: http://www.rtknet.org.

The only other data bases that we are aware of are:

  • The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has major incidents/spills that typically result in large scale impacts to the environment – website: http://www.csb.gov/.
  • Accidents that do not result in employee injury are not reported to OSHA nor recorded on OSHA forms/recordkeeping (only internal)

Unless requested the employee injury reports are internal only – shared with OSHA upon request.   

RESPONDENT:

 

John Niland, Invenergy Thermal Development LLC

DATE:

August 19, 2016