# TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-08-03 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20150110 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2015-08-03 **Published:** 2015-09-02 Gas transmission and gathering incident in FALFURRIAS, BROOKS County, TX. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 50740 NATURAL GAS released, $40,601 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 FALFURRIAS, BROOKS County, TX. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 50740 NATURAL GAS released, $40,601 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: 20150110. Operator ID: 19160. Reported incident date: 8/3/2015 20:36. Location detail: 403-1+51168 Cause detail: ENVIRONMENTAL CRACKING-RELATED Cause detail: ON 08/03/2015 AT APPROXIMATELY 8:36PM TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE (TGP) GAS CONTROL RECEIVED A PRESSURE RATE OF CHANGE CRITICAL ALARM ON LINE 400-1. THE GAS CONTROLLER CONTACTED TGP OPERATIONS TO DISPATCH PERSONNEL TO THE POSSIBLE LEAK SITE AND TAKE TGP STATION 1 OFFLINE. THE CONTROLLER ALSO CONFIRMED THAT LOCAL EMERGENCY RESPONDERS, INCLUDING THE BROOKS COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT, WERE ON-SITE. OPERATIONS INITIATED EMERGENCY RESPONSE. THE 400-1 LINE FROM MAINLINE VALVE (MLV) 403-1 TO MLV 404-1 WAS ISOLATED AT 10:06PM AND THE ISOLATED SECTION WAS BLOWN DOWN TO A ZERO PRESSURE BY 10:15PM. THE FIRE MARSHAL EVACUATED HOMES AND TX DOT TEMPORARILY CLOSED HWY 285 FOR A 5 MILE DISTANCE EAST AND WEST UNTIL THE ISOLATED SEGMENT WAS BLOWN DOWN. THE METALLURGICAL REPORT CONCLUDED THAT THE CAUSE WAS HIGH PH STRESS CORROSION CRACKING. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — ENVIRONMENTAL CRACKING-RELATED. PHMSA indexed costs: $191,498 reported total cost, $158,874.942 in 1984 dollars, $222,277.536 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: `53e8ee902e67402fb317d04c0763f571828827542d7beb63987f9a159a095cdf` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-24T17:08:29.922Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-6d1e18153733caf7802725d4` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20150110", "supplementalNumber": "16929", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2015-09-02", "receivedDateRaw": "9/2/2015" }, "operator": { "id": "19160", "name": "TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY" }, "incident": { "date": "2015-08-03", "dateRaw": "8/3/2015 20:36" }, "location": { "city": "FALFURRIAS", "county": "BROOKS", "state": "TX", "postalCode": "78355", "latitude": 27.22217, "longitude": -98.11031, "type": "PIPELINE RIGHT-OF-WAY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "403-1+51168" }, "facilityName": "SAN SALVADOR (400-1)" }, "cause": { "category": "MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "ENVIRONMENTAL CRACKING-RELATED", "NARRATIVE": "ON 08/03/2015 AT APPROXIMATELY 8:36PM TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE (TGP) GAS CONTROL RECEIVED A PRESSURE RATE OF CHANGE CRITICAL ALARM ON LINE 400-1. THE GAS CONTROLLER CONTACTED TGP OPERATIONS TO DISPATCH PERSONNEL TO THE POSSIBLE LEAK SITE AND TAKE TGP STATION 1 OFFLINE. THE CONTROLLER ALSO CONFIRMED THAT LOCAL EMERGENCY RESPONDERS, INCLUDING THE BROOKS COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT, WERE ON-SITE. OPERATIONS INITIATED EMERGENCY RESPONSE. THE 400-1 LINE FROM MAINLINE VALVE (MLV) 403-1 TO MLV 404-1 WAS ISOLATED AT 10:06PM AND THE ISOLATED SECTION WAS BLOWN DOWN TO A ZERO PRESSURE BY 10:15PM. THE FIRE MARSHAL EVACUATED HOMES AND TX DOT TEMPORARILY CLOSED HWY 285 FOR A 5 MILE DISTANCE EAST AND WEST UNTIL THE ISOLATED SEGMENT WAS BLOWN DOWN. 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