# PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1988020010 — PETROLEUM OIL — WALSH, CO

**Citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1988020010  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 1988-01-05  
**Published:** Not stated

Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 1988-01-05 in WALSH, CO.

## Document text

PHMSA hazardous materials incident report I-1988020010.
Incident date: 1988-01-05.
Location: WALSH, CO.
Mode: Highway.
Carrier/reporter: PETRO SOURCE.
Shipper: PETRO SOURCE.
Materials: NA1270; PETROLEUM OIL; hazard class 3; 8190 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=2iVuhWtFGxherqF5RGSh%2Bg%3D%3D>
- Source ID: `phmsa-hazmat-incidents`
- SHA-256: `7c400a35896ca84b1fb50830b6d2598d743e6824e8522a5aeb11cee2d6f120e9`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-13T12:55:56.545Z
- Exported: 2026-08-25T06:25:04.007Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-hazmat-incident-i-1988020010`

### Source metadata

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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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}
```