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U.S. Chemical Safety Board Releases Volume 3 of Chemical Incident Reports; Incidents Resulted in 1.8 Billion Dollars in Property Damage

Washington, D.C. July 22, 2025 – Today, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) announced that it has released Volume 3 of its Incident Reports. Volume 3 covers 30 serious ...
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CSB Releases Final Report

Washington, D.C., July, 6, 2023 - Today, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released its final investigation report on the 2019 tank farm fire at the Intercontinental ...
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U.S. Chemical Safety Board Opens Investigation Into Fatal Chemical Tank Implosion at Nippon Dynawave Paper Mill in Washington

Washington, D.C., May 27, 2026 — The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) announced today that it is opening an investigation into the fatal chemical tank implosion at the Nippon ...
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U.S. Chemical Safety Board Releases Final Investigation Report on 2025 Explosion and Fire at Shell Polymers Monaca Facility in Pennsylvania

Washington, D.C., September 16, 2026 — The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) today released the agency’s final report on its investigation into the major June 4, 2025, ...
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U.S. Chemical Safety Board Issues Second Update

Washington, D.C May 23, 2025 – The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) today released its second update on the agency’s ongoing investigation into the September 29, 2024, ...
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U.S. Chemical Safety Board Issues Update on Investigation into the Fatal Catastrophic Tank Failure at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Facility in Longview, Washington

CSB Discovers that Nippon Dynawave Packaging Company Was Told in July 2025 that the Tank Was Not Fit for Continued Service and Could Fail Washington, D.C., August 28, 2026 — The U.S. Chemical Safety ...
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CSB Releases Final Report into 2019 PES Fire and Explosion in Philadelphia

Agency Calls on Industry to Require Improved Safeguards and US EPA to Require Analysis of Safer Technologies to Hydrofluoric Acid (HF) Alkylation and Conduct a TSCA Risk Evaluation of HF Washington, D ...
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CSB Releases Final Case Study into 2013 Explosion and Fire at Williams Olefins Plant in Geismar, Louisiana

October 19, 2016, Baton Rouge, LA -- Today the CSB released its final report into the June 13, 2013, explosion and fire at the Williams Olefins Plant in Geismar, Louisiana, which killed two employees.
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The U.S. Chemical Safety Board's Investigation into the Macondo Disaster Finds Offshore Risk Management and Regulatory Oversight still Inadequate in Gulf of Mexico

Washington, DC, April 13, 2016 - Offshore regulatory changes made thus far do not do enough to place the onus on industry to reduce risk, nor do they sufficiently empower the regulator to proactively ...
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U.S. Chemical Safety Board Releases Volume 4 of Incident Reports

Washington, D.C., February 18, 2026 — The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) today released Volume 4 of its Incident Reports. The reports in the Volume detail 13 major chemical ...
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U.S. Chemical Safety Board Releases Update on its Investigation of Fatal Explosion at U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works

Washington D.C. September 29, 2025 — Today, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released an update on the agency’s ongoing investigation into the August 11, 2025, fatal ...
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CSB Issues Interim Safety Recommendations to U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works

December 23, 2025, Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) today issued two interim safety recommendations in connection with the agency’s ongoing ...