# PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1982040323 — AMMONIA ANHYDROUS — BUCYRUS, KS

**Citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1982040323  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 1982-03-31  
**Published:** Not stated

Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 1982-03-31 in BUCYRUS, KS.

## Document text

PHMSA hazardous materials incident report I-1982040323.
Incident date: 1982-03-31.
Location: BUCYRUS, KS.
Mode: Rail.
Carrier/reporter: MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD CO..
Shipper: CHEROKEE NITROGEN CO..
Materials: UN1005; AMMONIA ANHYDROUS; hazard class 2.2; 19287.5 LGA released.
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=wAnmRV%2FxAsKzYQapa4efcg%3D%3D>
- Source ID: `phmsa-hazmat-incidents`
- SHA-256: `8d3d8acba130f1b034215e7c5fde1b8c19c09ae1e43a06e3efbc4ec8ca3dd5da`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-13T12:55:56.545Z
- Exported: 2026-08-24T23:19:38.408Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-hazmat-incident-i-1982040323`

### Source metadata

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  ],
  "originCities": [
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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"
}
```