# DOMINION TRANSMISSION, INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-01-06 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20120012 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2012-01-06 **Published:** 2012-02-02 Gas transmission and gathering incident in LUTHERSBURG, CLEARFIELD County, PA. Reported cause: OTHER INCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 NATURAL GAS released, $55,000 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 LUTHERSBURG, CLEARFIELD County, PA. Reported cause: OTHER INCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 NATURAL GAS released, $55,000 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: 20120012. Operator ID: 2714. Reported incident date: 1/6/2012 9:30. Location detail: LUTHER GATE Cause detail: MISCELLANEOUS Cause detail: EMPLOYEE WAS READING CORROSION TEST STATION AT LN 50 GATE SITE 107 ( LUTHERSBURG GATES) -EMPLOYEE REMOVED A TS CAP NEAR GATE#107-J AND NOTICED GAS ESCAPING OUT OF THE TS PIPE. EMPLOYEE IMMEDIATELY REPORTED THE LEAK TO SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL. INVESTIGATION FOUND THAT GAS APPEARED TO BE COMING FROM THE 107-J GATE. THIS IS A 6' TEMPORARY FEED FROM LUTHER STATION TO LN-50. IT WAS ALSO DETERMINED THAT THE GAS WAS MIGRATING UNDERGROUND AND WE WERE PICKING UP READINGS BY THE PARKING LOT AND CLOSE TO THE GARAGE/WAREHOUSE BUILDING. NOTIFIED GAS CONTROL OF THE FINDINGS AND BEGAN ARRANGEMENTS TO ISOLATE THE SEGMENT OF LN 50 FROM LUTHERSBURG GATE# 107 TO BIG RUN GATE # 90. THE PRESSURE ON LN 50 WAS 890# AND WAS BLOWN TO ATMOSPHERE. AFTER EXCAVATING THE VALVE, IT WAS FOUND THAT THE LEAK WAS AT THE 6' WOL ON LN 50. LUTHERSBURG TRANSMISSION WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF LUTHERSBURG G&P EMPLOYEES REPLACED THE SECTION OF 30" PIPE. THE PIPE WAS REPLACED WITH A STRAIGHT PIECE OF PIPE AND THE 'J' VALVE WAS REMOVED. THE 6' WAS CUT & CAPPED. THE LINE WAS PUT BACK IN SERVICE AND TURNED OVER TO GAS CONTROL AT 5:09 PM, MONDAY THE 9TH. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — MISCELLANEOUS. PHMSA indexed costs: $121,301 reported total cost, $84,336.143 in 1984 dollars, $139,323.555 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: `544d790f5cc6241bd1b2b19bbd0813c5e1756a6860e9cd33cb02b29b8c050436` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-27T10:24:59.167Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-38691f6700650f26627446af` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20120012", "supplementalNumber": "15811", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL", "receivedDate": "2012-02-02", "receivedDateRaw": "2/2/2012" }, "operator": { "id": "2714", "name": "DOMINION TRANSMISSION, INC" }, "incident": { "date": "2012-01-06", "dateRaw": "1/6/2012 9:30" }, "location": { "city": "LUTHERSBURG", "county": "CLEARFIELD", "state": "PA", "postalCode": "15848", "latitude": 41.05968, "longitude": -78.7288, "type": "OPERATOR-CONTROLLED PROPERTY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "LUTHER GATE" }, "facilityName": "LN-50" }, "cause": { "category": "OTHER INCIDENT CAUSE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "MISCELLANEOUS", "NARRATIVE": "EMPLOYEE WAS READING CORROSION TEST STATION AT LN 50 GATE SITE 107 ( LUTHERSBURG GATES) -EMPLOYEE REMOVED A TS CAP NEAR GATE#107-J AND NOTICED GAS ESCAPING OUT OF THE TS PIPE. EMPLOYEE IMMEDIATELY REPORTED THE LEAK TO SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL. INVESTIGATION FOUND THAT GAS APPEARED TO BE COMING FROM THE 107-J GATE. THIS IS A 6' TEMPORARY FEED FROM LUTHER STATION TO LN-50. IT WAS ALSO DETERMINED THAT THE GAS WAS MIGRATING UNDERGROUND AND WE WERE PICKING UP READINGS BY THE PARKING LOT AND CLOSE TO THE GARAGE/WAREHOUSE BUILDING. NOTIFIED GAS CONTROL OF THE FINDINGS AND BEGAN ARRANGEMENTS TO ISOLATE THE SEGMENT OF LN 50 FROM LUTHERSBURG GATE# 107 TO BIG RUN GATE # 90. THE PRESSURE ON LN 50 WAS 890# AND WAS BLOWN TO ATMOSPHERE. AFTER EXCAVATING THE VALVE, IT WAS FOUND THAT THE LEAK WAS AT THE 6' WOL ON LN 50. LUTHERSBURG TRANSMISSION WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF LUTHERSBURG G&P EMPLOYEES REPLACED THE SECTION OF 30\" PIPE. THE PIPE WAS REPLACED WITH A STRAIGHT PIECE OF PIPE AND THE 'J' VALVE WAS REMOVED. THE 6' WAS CUT & CAPPED. 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