# PHMSA Hazmat Incident E-2012060417 — LPG — SAN BENITO, TX

**Citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident E-2012060417  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2012-05-22  
**Published:** Not stated

Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 2012-05-22 in SAN BENITO, TX.

## Document text

PHMSA hazardous materials incident report E-2012060417.
Incident date: 2012-05-22.
Location: SAN BENITO, TX.
Mode: Highway.
Carrier/reporter: Ferrellgas, Inc..
Shipper: Ferrellgas, Inc..
Materials: UN1075; LPG; hazard class 2.1; 8.55552 GCF released.
What failed: Cylinder Valve.
How failed: Vented.
Reported failure causes: Fire, Temperature, or Heat.
Reported result: Fire, Explosion.
Reporter-submitted DOT Form 5800.1 data may be incomplete, corrected, supplemented, or misreported. A record, serious-incident classification, failure description, or relationship to a reporting rule is not a PHMSA causal finding, compliance determination, or finding of a violation.

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/PDFGenerator/getPublicReport/OHMIR_5800-1-PUBLIC?INCIDENTID=DJ6wMESqNr5iWpQoOGZJtw%3D%3D>
- Source ID: `phmsa-hazmat-incidents`
- SHA-256: `04d29c33cb3c473cc3dbabd03407d2cb7e3143a94c225d59ee4c09b3de6a884d`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-13T12:55:56.545Z
- Exported: 2026-08-25T15:20:43.892Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-hazmat-incident-e-2012060417`

### Source metadata

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  "rowCount": 1,
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    "Ferrellgas, Inc."
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  "routes": [
    "125 N Williams Rd."
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      "outerShipmentCount": "13",
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  "caveat": "Reporter-submitted DOT Form 5800.1 data may be incomplete, corrected, supplemented, or misreported. A record, serious-incident classification, failure description, or relationship to a reporting rule is not a PHMSA causal finding, compliance determination, or finding of a violation.",
  "privacyCaveat": "The public CSV excludes preparer contact fields. Event Description is intentionally excluded from normalized records and search output to reduce incidental personal-information risk.",
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}
```