EPA releases the 2017 RMP Accidents

This week the EPA released an EXCEL spreadsheet that lists all the “RMP Accidents” that occurred in 2017.  I noticed a couple of key items:

1. Not sure where they obtained the data, as many of the incidents listed did not rise to the level of a “5-year Accident History” incident,  but are shown in this data
2. The report does not tell us the chemical involved or the size of the release
3. The report does not tell us the equipment where the leak/release occurred or the cause
4. There are 95 entries (assuming this means 95 incidents, but since many resulted in almost no type of impact, not sure if it is fair to say we had 95 RMP incidents in 2017

Here is a breakdown of the incidents: