# CHEVRON PIPELINE CO — Hazardous liquid — incident on 1996-03-05

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 19960060  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 1996-03-05  
**Published:** 1996-04-05

Hazardous liquid incident in SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Reported cause: CORROSION. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 330 DIESEL FUEL released, $1,000,000 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

Hazardous liquid incident in SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Reported cause: CORROSION. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 330 DIESEL FUEL released, $1,000,000 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: 19960060.

Operator ID: 2330.

Reported incident date: 19960305.

Location detail: WARM SPRINGS ROAD, ADJACENT TO INTERSTATE 15 APPROXIMATELY 1040 WEST 1100 NORTH

Cause detail: CORROSION, EXTERNAL

Cause detail: THERE ARE SIGNS OF DAMAGE, POSSIBLY FROM A BACKHOE, WHERE CORROSION OCCURRED. WE ARE UNSURE HOW DAMAGE OCCURRED AND ARE CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING THIS.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $1,000,000 reported total cost, $719,732.167 in 1984 dollars, $1,772,478.819 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/2cb38c7d-9a3e-4074-b175-05a5cd0c44a6?download=true&filename=Hazardous%20Liquid%20Accident%20Data%201986%20to%20January%202002.zip>
- Source ID: `phmsa-pipeline-incidents`
- SHA-256: `e4435c322590f41c3cb2999e4dcb2417a9411558a3b4fb4cd7ab9ea895cfd4d6`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-22T23:22:54.774Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-2badd051200cd18e8b3eb06e`

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