# PHMSA Hazmat Incident E-2017030398 — DIESEL FUEL — EUREKA, NV

**Citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident E-2017030398  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2017-02-25  
**Published:** Not stated

Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 2017-02-25 in EUREKA, NV.

## Document text

PHMSA hazardous materials incident report E-2017030398.
Incident date: 2017-02-25.
Location: EUREKA, NV.
Mode: Highway.
Carrier/reporter: Thomas West Fuels, Lubricants and Chemicals, dba: TWFLC.
Shipper: Thomas West Fuels, Lubricants and Chemicals, dba: TWFLC.
Materials: NA1993; DIESEL FUEL; hazard class 3; 4000 LGA released.
What failed: Tank Shell.
How failed: Punctured.
Reported failure causes: Rollover Accident.
Reported result: Spillage.
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=HuHCMpmqQDv%2F2PhoN9liQQ%3D%3D>
- Source ID: `phmsa-hazmat-incidents`
- SHA-256: `aae15bebac2965c260e33cf55cf0329f746802f00185ffd36b36bd3d4d385e62`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-13T12:55:56.545Z
- Exported: 2026-08-23T13:00:17.397Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-hazmat-incident-e-2017030398`

### Source metadata

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