# SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE, INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-04-04 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20150062 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2015-04-04 **Published:** 2015-05-04 Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, BUCHANAN County, MO. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 147 NATURAL GAS released, $137,944 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, BUCHANAN County, MO. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 147 NATURAL GAS released, $137,944 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: 20150062. Operator ID: 31711. Reported incident date: 4/4/2015 7:19. Location detail: 170/736+08 Cause detail: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE Cause detail: ON APRIL 4TH AT 7:19 AM A LOCAL LAND OWNER CALLED SSC GAS CONTROL NOTIFYING OF A POSSIBLE LEAK. THE GAS CONTROLLER NOTIFIED LOCAL OPERATIONS IMMEDIATELY AFTER, AND OPERATIONS ARRIVED ON SITE AT APPROXIMATELY 10:00 AM. ONCE ONSITE AND INSPECTED IT WAS DETERMINED AN EXCAVATION WOULD BE NECESSARY BASED ON SIZE OF THE LEAK. AT THIS TIME AN EMERGENCY ONE-CALL TICKET WAS CALLED. AN OPERATOR REMAINED ONSITE TO SECURE THE SITE. AFTER THE RISER WAS DUG UP AND INVESTIGATED ON APRIL 5TH, AT APPROXIMATELY 9:29 AM, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE LEAK WAS UPSTREAM OF THE DOMESTIC LINE TAP VALVE. AT THIS POINT SSC IMPLEMENTED A 20% PRESSURE REDUCTION. BECAUSE THE LINE COULD NOT BE TAKEN OUT OF SERVICE SSC NOTIFIED NRC BECAUSE OF THE REPAIR COST EXCEEDING $50,000. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE — OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. PHMSA indexed costs: $140,784 reported total cost, $70,771.354 in 1984 dollars, $173,898.769 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: `89ca2aa4baf6bd08957b5c29ad6fba1021c0fa8b069022c9c225d8322a7d18f4` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-25T23:08:57.770Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-68ec68a873b172bfc589f4f4` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20150062", "supplementalNumber": "16879", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2015-05-04", "receivedDateRaw": "5/4/2015" }, "operator": { "id": "31711", "name": "SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE, INC" }, "incident": { "date": "2015-04-04", "dateRaw": "4/4/2015 7:19" }, "location": { "city": "Not Within a Municipality", "county": "BUCHANAN", "state": "MO", "postalCode": "64440", "latitude": 39.54392306, "longitude": -94.86669167, "type": "PIPELINE RIGHT-OF-WAY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "170/736+08" }, "facilityName": "XS" }, "cause": { "category": "OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE", "NARRATIVE": "ON APRIL 4TH AT 7:19 AM A LOCAL LAND OWNER CALLED SSC GAS CONTROL NOTIFYING OF A POSSIBLE LEAK. THE GAS CONTROLLER NOTIFIED LOCAL OPERATIONS IMMEDIATELY AFTER, AND OPERATIONS ARRIVED ON SITE AT APPROXIMATELY 10:00 AM. ONCE ONSITE AND INSPECTED IT WAS DETERMINED AN EXCAVATION WOULD BE NECESSARY BASED ON SIZE OF THE LEAK. AT THIS TIME AN EMERGENCY ONE-CALL TICKET WAS CALLED. AN OPERATOR REMAINED ONSITE TO SECURE THE SITE. AFTER THE RISER WAS DUG UP AND INVESTIGATED ON APRIL 5TH, AT APPROXIMATELY 9:29 AM, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE LEAK WAS UPSTREAM OF THE DOMESTIC LINE TAP VALVE. AT THIS POINT SSC IMPLEMENTED A 20% PRESSURE REDUCTION. 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