# PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2017-11-05

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20170114  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2017-11-05  
**Published:** 2017-11-29

Gas transmission and gathering incident in TUSCOLA, DOUGLAS County, IL. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 5275 NATURAL GAS released, $228 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: not significant, not serious.

## Document text

Gas transmission and gathering incident in TUSCOLA, DOUGLAS County, IL. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 5275 NATURAL GAS released, $228 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: 20170114.

Operator ID: 15105.

Reported incident date: 11/5/2017 18:40.

Location detail: 0+00

Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT

Cause detail: AT APPROXIMATELY 13:13 PM CST ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH, 2017, THE AUTOMATIC BLOW DOWN (ABD) FOR UNIT 1215 OPENED WHILE THE UNIT WAS RUNNING. THE UNIT WAS STOPPED BY STATION PERSONNEL AT 13:39 PM CST. ONCE THE VOLUME RELEASED WAS CONFIRMED, THE NRC WAS NOTIFIED (NRC# 1195292) AS WELL AS THE PHMSA AID. THE 48 HR NRC NOTIFICATION WAS MADE ON 11/7/17, (NRC# 1195625). THIS SUPPLEMENT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO CORRECT THE COORDINATES IN PART A, QUESTION #5.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

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

PHMSA indexed costs: $16,686 reported total cost, $15,738.638 in 1984 dollars, $19,462.28 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: `9c31b85b544695de93cb52669d83ec0ec6059cb0d09aee421a0e1222b8e5dceb`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-23T16:01:44.206Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-5526bf8d1f4f995c4aeb01f1`

### Source metadata

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