# TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2018-01-02 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20180009 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2018-01-02 **Published:** 2018-01-11 Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, FRANKLIN County, LA. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 16280 NATURAL GAS released, $13,650 reported property damage. Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. Records may be supplemented or corrected and do not represent final agency causal findings. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. ## Document text Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, FRANKLIN County, LA. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 16280 NATURAL GAS released, $13,650 reported property damage. Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. Records may be supplemented or corrected and do not represent final agency causal findings. Report number: 20180009. Operator ID: 19160. Reported incident date: 1/2/2018 0:01. Location detail: MP 0 IN YARD Cause detail: OTHER NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE Cause detail: ALL TIMES ARE CENTRAL STANDARD TIME; PIR = 633 FEET; KM TGP PIR WITH BUFFER = 673 FEET; 48-HOUR NRC UPDATE MADE EARLY DURING NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS, NRC # 1201018, 01/03/2018, 14:28 CST; GAS RELEASE REPORTED TO LA STATE POLICE 01/02/2018; REPORT NUMBER 18-00012; 01/02/18, STATION 834 IS ON LINE, OPERATING PERSONNEL IS ON SITE; WEATHER CONDITION IS UNUSUAL SEVERE COLD WEATHER; 15 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT; 01/02/2018, 00:01 HOUR, VALVE UNINTENTIONALLY BEGAN TO OPEN, RELEASING NATURAL GAS TO ATMOSPHERE; OPERATING PERSONNEL IMMEDIATELY HEARD THE SOUND OF VENTING NATURAL GAS AND INVESTIGATED SOURCE OF BLOWING GAS; OPERATING PERSONNEL THEN INITIATED A STATION SHUT DOWN; A SIDE VALVE UNINTENTIONALLY DID NOT CLOSE ALLOWING NATURAL GAS TO CONTINUE TO FEED OPEN VALVE; A RESIDENT HEARD THE SAME AND CALLED 911 (FARM HOUSES IN THE AREA); SHERIFF DEPARTMENT CALLED TGP GAS CONTROL; 00:57 HOUR, ANOTHER BLOCK VALVE WAS REMOTELY CLOSED BY EMPLOYEES THUS TERMINATING THE RELEASE OF NATURAL GAS TO ATMOSPHERE; INVESTIGATION AND REPAIR COMMENCED; MOISTURE CREATED ICE IN THE CONTROL BOX OF THE VALVE; SAID ICE CAUSED INCORRECT OPERATION OF THE CONTROLS THUS OPENING THE VALVE UNINTENTIONALLY; THE CONTROLS WERE CLEANED AND LUBRICATED AND THE CONTROL BOX WAS REINSTALLED; CONTROLS OF THE SIDE VALVE WERE FREED FROM ICE IN THE WORM GEAR HOUSING AND THE ACTUATOR WAS LUBRICATED AND RETURNED TO SERVICE MODE; 01/04/2018, 18:20 HOURS, STATION 834 RETURNED TO ON LINE STATUS; PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE — OTHER NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. PHMSA indexed costs: $62,573 reported total cost, $51,053.359 in 1984 dollars, $72,226.942 in current-year dollars. PHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings. ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `phmsa-pipeline-incidents` - SHA-256: `0b0a3146f1f4267c8053dfc6b434719bc47fb72f6767ac5cba7fc4c0d2cc4638` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-24T14:43:21.212Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-112736a0cd9754f73d1c118b` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20180009", "supplementalNumber": "17610", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2018-01-11", "receivedDateRaw": "1/11/2018" }, "operator": { "id": "19160", "name": "TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY" }, "incident": { "date": "2018-01-02", "dateRaw": "1/2/2018 0:01" }, "location": { "city": "Not Within a Municipality", "county": "FRANKLIN", "state": "LA", "postalCode": "71243", "latitude": 31.96260235, "longitude": -91.82174823, "type": "OPERATOR-CONTROLLED PROPERTY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "MP 0 IN YARD" }, "facilityName": "STATION 834 - WINNSBORO STATION" }, "cause": { "category": "NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "OTHER NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE", "NARRATIVE": "ALL TIMES ARE CENTRAL STANDARD TIME; PIR = 633 FEET; KM TGP PIR WITH BUFFER = 673 FEET; 48-HOUR NRC UPDATE MADE EARLY DURING NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS, NRC # 1201018, 01/03/2018, 14:28 CST; GAS RELEASE REPORTED TO LA STATE POLICE 01/02/2018; REPORT NUMBER 18-00012; 01/02/18, STATION 834 IS ON LINE, OPERATING PERSONNEL IS ON SITE; WEATHER CONDITION IS UNUSUAL SEVERE COLD WEATHER; 15 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT; 01/02/2018, 00:01 HOUR, VALVE UNINTENTIONALLY BEGAN TO OPEN, RELEASING NATURAL GAS TO ATMOSPHERE; OPERATING PERSONNEL IMMEDIATELY HEARD THE SOUND OF VENTING NATURAL GAS AND INVESTIGATED SOURCE OF BLOWING GAS; OPERATING PERSONNEL THEN INITIATED A STATION SHUT DOWN; A SIDE VALVE UNINTENTIONALLY DID NOT CLOSE ALLOWING NATURAL GAS TO CONTINUE TO FEED OPEN VALVE; A RESIDENT HEARD THE SAME AND CALLED 911 (FARM HOUSES IN THE AREA); SHERIFF DEPARTMENT CALLED TGP GAS CONTROL; 00:57 HOUR, ANOTHER BLOCK VALVE WAS REMOTELY CLOSED BY EMPLOYEES THUS TERMINATING THE RELEASE OF NATURAL GAS TO ATMOSPHERE; INVESTIGATION AND REPAIR COMMENCED; MOISTURE CREATED ICE IN THE CONTROL BOX OF THE VALVE; SAID ICE CAUSED INCORRECT OPERATION OF THE CONTROLS THUS OPENING THE VALVE UNINTENTIONALLY; THE CONTROLS WERE CLEANED AND LUBRICATED AND THE CONTROL BOX WAS REINSTALLED; CONTROLS OF THE SIDE VALVE WERE FREED FROM ICE IN THE WORM GEAR HOUSING AND THE ACTUATOR WAS LUBRICATED AND RETURNED TO SERVICE MODE; 01/04/2018, 18:20 HOURS, STATION 834 RETURNED TO ON LINE STATUS;" } }, "consequences": { "fatalities": 0, "injuries": 0, "commodity": "NATURAL GAS", "release": "16280", "propertyDamage": 13650, "estimatedOperatorCost": 0, "estimatedEmergencyCost": 2525, "estimatedEnvironmentalCost": null, "ignition": "NO", "explosion": "NO", "evacuated": 0, "raw": { "FATAL": "0", "INJURE": "0", "UNINTENTIONAL_RELEASE": "16280", "EST_COST_PROP_DAMAGE": "13650", "PRPTY": "62573" } }, "provenance": { "viewId": "27nc-rsge", "viewUrl": "https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge", "assetId": "2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8", "archiveFilename": "Gas Transmission & Gathering Incident Data - January 2010 to present.zip", "archiveSha256": "fe0b136ca4b00ac987a8bc2e195098accf910d97512c5fc3b59e62d9da5f674e", "memberPath": "incident_gas_transmission_gathering_jan2010_present.txt", "memberSha256": "b435f2a25718cf54c54e00294e6788c4f9c6860e02fb86355e75d294c243c4dd", "rowNumber": 1011, "rowSha256": "8fb9cfaf4ef78a27051e9aeb79349062d1bce20142bffae9855a80451b5a7bfa" }, "caveat": "Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. 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