# COLUMBIA GULF TRANSMISSION CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-01-02

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20120011  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2012-01-02  
**Published:** 2012-01-27

Gas transmission and gathering incident in IRVINE, ESTILL County, KY. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 206923 released, $902,000 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 IRVINE, ESTILL County, KY. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 206923 released, $902,000 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: 20120011.

Operator ID: 2620.

Reported incident date: 1/2/2012 19:50.

Location detail: 68.3

Cause detail: EARTH MOVEMENT, NOT DUE TO HEAVY RAINS/FLOODS

Cause detail: BASED ON THE SITE EVALUATION INFORMATION, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, THE ABNORMALLY HIGH RAINFALL AMOUNTS PRIOR TO THE INCIDENT, THE APPEARANCE OF THE FAILED SECTIONS AND THE PRELIMINARY REPORT PROVIDED BY THE THIRD PARTY METALLURGIST, THE MOSTLY LIKELY PRIMARY CAUSE OF THE FAILURE WAS PIPE FAILURE DUE TO LAND MOVEMENT.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE — EARTH MOVEMENT.

PHMSA indexed costs: $1,688,065 reported total cost, $1,099,140.97 in 1984 dollars, $2,004,523.305 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: <https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip>
- Source ID: `phmsa-pipeline-incidents`
- SHA-256: `2b22f2e83aa847766a532916f5fdc208d10f0ec2ca1de14a3506e2620a338ddd`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-26T23:32:10.390Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-128ffc92bd599189fbdbb41b`

### Source metadata

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