# PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1997061133 — FUEL, AVIATION, TURBINE ENGINE — CAERNARVON, PA

**Citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1997061133  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 1997-05-27  
**Published:** Not stated

Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 1997-05-27 in CAERNARVON, PA.

## Document text

PHMSA hazardous materials incident report I-1997061133.
Incident date: 1997-05-27.
Location: CAERNARVON, PA.
Mode: Highway.
Carrier/reporter: SEABOARD TANK LINES INC.
Shipper: INTERSTATE STORAGE & PIPE CO.
Materials: UN1863; FUEL, AVIATION, TURBINE ENGINE; hazard class 3; 7800 LGA released.
How failed: Punctured.
Reported failure causes: Rollover Accident; 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=8X261A8Q9Uv8yoPM9rt%2FaA%3D%3D>
- Source ID: `phmsa-hazmat-incidents`
- SHA-256: `006ea223ed6c036cf8fd4834ab7f03f0713509a0b61f6df43afd72098ec9c023`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-13T12:55:56.545Z
- Exported: 2026-08-25T18:12:47.207Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-hazmat-incident-i-1997061133`

### 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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}
```