# PHMSA Hazmat Incident X-2015050050 — DICYCLOPENTADIENE — Phillip, MS

**Citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident X-2015050050  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2015-03-30  
**Published:** Not stated

Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 2015-03-30 in Phillip, MS.

## Document text

PHMSA hazardous materials incident report X-2015050050.
Incident date: 2015-03-30.
Location: Phillip, MS.
Mode: Rail.
Carrier/reporter: CN/Illinois Central Railroad.
Shipper: Cymetch Corporation.
Materials: UN2048; DICYCLOPENTADIENE; hazard class 3; 18000 LGA released.
What failed: Tank Shell.
How failed: Punctured.
Reported failure causes: Derailment.
Reported result: Spillage, Environmental Damage.
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=0KxWPOZYfBC90vvWj50N9A%3D%3D>
- Source ID: `phmsa-hazmat-incidents`
- SHA-256: `81884aa53997af0a44f9c3a8c7bb57040b276deae9be17f1e620f1a5aa370771`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-13T12:55:56.545Z
- Exported: 2026-08-26T12:03:21.772Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-hazmat-incident-x-2015050050`

### Source metadata

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  ],
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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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}
```