# TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-12-19 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20170002 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2016-12-19 **Published:** 2017-01-11 Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, WAYNE County, TN. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 24861 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 Not Within a Municipality, WAYNE County, TN. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 24861 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: 20170002. Operator ID: 19160. Reported incident date: 12/19/2016 3:20. Location detail: MP 10, 1480' Cause detail: TEMPERATURE Cause detail: 12/19/2016; TGP STATION 555 IS OFF LINE; 3:20 AM, A FAULT OCCURRED IN "B" BUILDING RESULTING WITH AN ESD OF STATION 555 YARD PIPING; NOTIFIED BY GAS CONTROL, COMPANY EMPLOYEES ARRIVED AT STATION 555 AT 3:50 AM AND BEGAN CLOSING VALVES; VALVE AD-1 FOUND NOT CLOSED FOLLOWING ESD FUNCTION; WITH THE COLD WEATHER, FREEZING WATER IN VALVE OPERATOR GEAR BOX OF VALVE AD-1 ALLOWED REPORTABLE VOLUME OF NATURAL GAS RELEASED TO ATMOSPHERE. VALVE AD-1 WAS CLOSED AT 4:05 AM. GREASE WAS PLACED IN THIS GEAR BOX AS WELL AS THOSE OF OTHER APPLICABLE VALVES TO PREVENT SIMILAR EVENTS IN THE FUTURE. (PIR CALCULATED ON 36-INCH PIPE) PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE — TEMPERATURE. PHMSA indexed costs: $66,795 reported total cost, $70,974.184 in 1984 dollars, $87,299.114 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: `9d6b66c28c16af82e2f78e7e2adb39b991fb12026a0295b2f8850ab09845b96f` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-26T08:43:43.166Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-2e693bf0f20946052c423c36` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20170002", "supplementalNumber": "17408", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2017-01-11", "receivedDateRaw": "1/11/2017" }, "operator": { "id": "19160", "name": "TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY" }, "incident": { "date": "2016-12-19", "dateRaw": "12/19/2016 3:20" }, "location": { "city": "Not Within a Municipality", "county": "WAYNE", "state": "TN", "postalCode": "38452", "latitude": 35.024183, "longitude": -87.757625, "type": "OPERATOR-CONTROLLED PROPERTY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "MP 10, 1480'" }, "facilityName": "TGP STATION 555, COLLINWOOD COMPRESSOR STATION" }, "cause": { "category": "NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "TEMPERATURE", "NARRATIVE": "12/19/2016; TGP STATION 555 IS OFF LINE; 3:20 AM, A FAULT OCCURRED IN \"B\" BUILDING RESULTING WITH AN ESD OF STATION 555 YARD PIPING; NOTIFIED BY GAS CONTROL, COMPANY EMPLOYEES ARRIVED AT STATION 555 AT 3:50 AM AND BEGAN CLOSING VALVES; VALVE AD-1 FOUND NOT CLOSED FOLLOWING ESD FUNCTION; WITH THE COLD WEATHER, FREEZING WATER IN VALVE OPERATOR GEAR BOX OF VALVE AD-1 ALLOWED REPORTABLE VOLUME OF NATURAL GAS RELEASED TO ATMOSPHERE. VALVE AD-1 WAS CLOSED AT 4:05 AM. GREASE WAS PLACED IN THIS GEAR BOX AS WELL AS THOSE OF OTHER APPLICABLE VALVES TO PREVENT SIMILAR EVENTS IN THE FUTURE. (PIR CALCULATED ON 36-INCH PIPE)" } }, "consequences": { "fatalities": 0, "injuries": 0, "commodity": "NATURAL GAS", "release": "24861", "propertyDamage": 0, "estimatedOperatorCost": 0, "estimatedEmergencyCost": 250, "estimatedEnvironmentalCost": null, "ignition": "NO", "explosion": "NO", "evacuated": 0, "raw": { "FATAL": "0", "INJURE": "0", "UNINTENTIONAL_RELEASE": "24861", "EST_COST_PROP_DAMAGE": "0", "PRPTY": "66795" } }, "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": 1143, "rowSha256": "fa8da8e9e5ee3ebd4f7b9bf581b750902af948b1a22c91dc0dd3831a61b5642b" }, "caveat": "Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. 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