# GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-05-21 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20160047 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2016-05-21 **Published:** 2016-06-10 Gas transmission and gathering incident in WINNSBORO, FRANKLIN County, LA. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 428 NATURAL GAS released, $7,500 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 WINNSBORO, FRANKLIN County, LA. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 428 NATURAL GAS released, $7,500 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: 20160047. Operator ID: 31728. Reported incident date: 5/21/2016 23:00. Location detail: 14.52 Cause detail: DAMAGE BY CAR, TRUCK, OR OTHER MOTORIZED VEHICLE/EQUIPMENT NOT ENGAGED IN EXCAVATION Cause detail: A VEHICLE VEERED OFF THE ROAD AND HIT GULF SOUTH'S WINNSBORO TOWN BORDER METER STATION FACILITY. THE VEHICLE WENT THROUGH FENCING AND SHEERED OFF A 1" PIPE RISER. NO FIRE OCCURRED. BECAUSE 24 PEOPLE WERE EVACUATED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND 2 INDIVIDUALS, AS GULF SOUTH UNDERSTANDS, WERE TAKEN TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AND THEN RELEASED, GULF SOUTH CONSIDERS THIS A SIGNIFICANT EVENT AND ELECTED TO SUBMIT AN INCIDENT REPORT PER 49 CFR 191.5(A)(3). 8-19-16 REVISED TO CORRECT LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE. PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE — VEHICLE NOT ENGAGED IN EXCAVATION. PHMSA indexed costs: $9,873 reported total cost, $5,407.37 in 1984 dollars, $12,168.931 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: `cdce198f0308919a918ea9b78e953472d69bc85dece2896f4093c5668bfd0289` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-25T06:12:56.267Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-654bcc89afc28515d650b0c3` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20160047", "supplementalNumber": "17169", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2016-06-10", "receivedDateRaw": "6/10/2016" }, "operator": { "id": "31728", "name": "GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP" }, "incident": { "date": "2016-05-21", "dateRaw": "5/21/2016 23:00" }, "location": { "city": "WINNSBORO", "county": "FRANKLIN", "state": "LA", "postalCode": "70538", "latitude": 32.178842, "longitude": -91.726553, "type": "PIPELINE RIGHT-OF-WAY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "14.52" }, "facilityName": "WINNSBORO TOWN BORDER STATION" }, "cause": { "category": "OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "DAMAGE BY CAR, TRUCK, OR OTHER MOTORIZED VEHICLE/EQUIPMENT NOT ENGAGED IN EXCAVATION", "NARRATIVE": "A VEHICLE VEERED OFF THE ROAD AND HIT GULF SOUTH'S WINNSBORO TOWN BORDER METER STATION FACILITY. THE VEHICLE WENT THROUGH FENCING AND SHEERED OFF A 1\" PIPE RISER. NO FIRE OCCURRED. BECAUSE 24 PEOPLE WERE EVACUATED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND 2 INDIVIDUALS, AS GULF SOUTH UNDERSTANDS, WERE TAKEN TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AND THEN RELEASED, GULF SOUTH CONSIDERS THIS A SIGNIFICANT EVENT AND ELECTED TO SUBMIT AN INCIDENT REPORT PER 49 CFR 191.5(A)(3). 8-19-16 REVISED TO CORRECT LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE." } }, "consequences": { "fatalities": 0, "injuries": 0, "commodity": "NATURAL GAS", "release": "428", "propertyDamage": 7500, "estimatedOperatorCost": 0, "estimatedEmergencyCost": 1500, "estimatedEnvironmentalCost": null, "ignition": "NO", "explosion": "NO", "evacuated": 24, "raw": { "FATAL": "0", "INJURE": "0", "UNINTENTIONAL_RELEASE": "428", "EST_COST_PROP_DAMAGE": "7500", "PRPTY": "9873" } }, "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": 1194, "rowSha256": "447e2bff57cfcddd4806cf1884eb37ba741186153c0731778b67e2c79ba8e1ec" }, "caveat": "Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. 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