# PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-2016060186 — METHANOL — COLOGNE

**Citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-2016060186  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2016-05-19  
**Published:** Not stated

Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 2016-05-19 in COLOGNE.

## Document text

PHMSA hazardous materials incident report I-2016060186.
Incident date: 2016-05-19.
Location: COLOGNE.
Mode: Air.
Carrier/reporter: FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPROATION.
Shipper: A1 ENVIROSCIENCES GMBH.
Materials: UN1230; METHANOL; hazard class 3; 0.26418 LGA released.
What failed: Basic Material.
How failed: Leaked.
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=9QPkG0hz6L%2FWpkgA6g8HMA%3D%3D>
- Source ID: `phmsa-hazmat-incidents`
- SHA-256: `5f437a2eb02685dd9c7a861263b4191e4417c2cdc14817190d6fe2c1f2727378`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-13T12:55:56.545Z
- Exported: 2026-08-26T18:49:09.488Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-hazmat-incident-i-2016060186`

### Source metadata

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