# PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-2004040894 — ACETYLENE, DISSOLVED — MIAMI, FL

**Citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-2004040894  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2004-03-17  
**Published:** Not stated

Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 2004-03-17 in MIAMI, FL.

## Document text

PHMSA hazardous materials incident report I-2004040894.
Incident date: 2004-03-17.
Location: MIAMI, FL.
Mode: Highway.
Carrier/reporter: AIRGAS SOUTH.
Shipper: WESTERN INTL GAS & CYLINDERS.
Materials: UN1001; ACETYLENE, DISSOLVED; hazard class 2.1; 40 GCF released.
Reported result: Fire.
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=PxmlrttNRmv3rgd78g1I9Q%3D%3D>
- Source ID: `phmsa-hazmat-incidents`
- SHA-256: `9ae232c5d41fcb6387f8078657b5f92a03cf41bb9e2762121f7f410ea2f5bd56`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-13T12:55:56.545Z
- Exported: 2026-08-25T13:34:00.959Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-hazmat-incident-i-2004040894`

### Source metadata

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  "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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}
```