# PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1978081428 — FUEL OIL — WEST PALM BEACH, FL

**Citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1978081428  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 1978-02-27  
**Published:** Not stated

Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 1978-02-27 in WEST PALM BEACH, FL.

## Document text

PHMSA hazardous materials incident report I-1978081428.
Incident date: 1978-02-27.
Location: WEST PALM BEACH, FL.
Mode: Highway.
Carrier/reporter: BELCHER OIL COMPANY.
Shipper: BELCHER OIL COMPANY.
Materials: NA1993; FUEL OIL; hazard class 2.0; 500 LGA released.
Reported failure causes: Vehicular Crash or Accident Damage.
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=JZsUrTZra3lgDuxdvRDScA%3D%3D>
- Source ID: `phmsa-hazmat-incidents`
- SHA-256: `3b236adfec0daa56e8ba7db4e6a92d0e88c413338f88192bc620d0a31b791dad`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-13T12:55:56.545Z
- Exported: 2026-08-25T11:09:52.101Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-hazmat-incident-i-1978081428`

### Source metadata

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  ],
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  ],
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    }
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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.",
  "jurisdiction": "US"
}
```