# PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1999050339 — MERCURY — MIAMI, FL

**Citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1999050339  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 1998-06-21  
**Published:** Not stated

Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 1998-06-21 in MIAMI, FL.

## Document text

PHMSA hazardous materials incident report I-1999050339.
Incident date: 1998-06-21.
Location: MIAMI, FL.
Mode: Air.
Carrier/reporter: AMERICAN AIRLINES INC.
Shipper: NOT REPORTED BY CARRIER.
Materials: UN2809; MERCURY; hazard class 8; 0.001308 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=vloHn%2B4Ny1c%2BViv6I%2F732A%3D%3D>
- Source ID: `phmsa-hazmat-incidents`
- SHA-256: `2d0d073883ebb95e43a15ad7bf19aad304818bd1b9ef64b385a499b28fdd0ccc`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-13T12:55:56.545Z
- Exported: 2026-08-26T05:11:29.090Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-hazmat-incident-i-1999050339`

### Source metadata

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```