# TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-11-27

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20130119  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2013-11-27  
**Published:** 2013-12-24

Gas transmission and gathering incident in LA FAYETTE, ONONDAGA County, NY. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 25230 NATURAL GAS released, $0 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 LA FAYETTE, ONONDAGA County, NY. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 25230 NATURAL GAS released, $0 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: 20130119.

Operator ID: 19160.

Reported incident date: 11/27/2013 22:19.

Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT

Cause detail: LA FAYETTE FIRE DEPARTMENT NOTIFIED TENNESEE GAS PIPELINE (TGP) GAS CONTROL OF A POSSIBLE RELEASE IN THE STATION 241 FACILITY. TGP OPERATIONS PERSONNEL WERE DEPLOYED TO THE LOCATION AND SHUT-IN THE RELIEF VALVE AT 23:25 EASTERN TIME. THE RELIEF VALVE HAS BEEN INSPECTED AND TESTED AND IS OPERATIONAL. THE CAUSE IS UNKNOWN BUT THE RAIN / ICE STORM THAT OCCUR THAT EVENING IS SUSPECTED AS THE CAUSE.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.

PHMSA indexed costs: $88,817 reported total cost, $71,890.809 in 1984 dollars, $88,270.994 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: `83cb3b9b25a902e2d53433ce80f42da3009c206cf2ebf39827eb4aa693e8ccb2`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-27T08:48:35.353Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-174a54203ab9fb1d584b8f2a`

### Source metadata

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