# PETROLEUM FUEL AND TERMINAL COMPANY — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-04-29 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20150225 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2015-04-29 **Published:** 2015-06-18 Hazardous liquid incident in BALTIMORE, Not Within a County or Parish County, MD. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.24 REFINED AND/OR PETROLEUM PRODUCT (NON-HVL) WHICH IS A LIQUID AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $136,851 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 Hazardous liquid incident in BALTIMORE, Not Within a County or Parish County, MD. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.24 REFINED AND/OR PETROLEUM PRODUCT (NON-HVL) WHICH IS A LIQUID AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $136,851 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: 20150225. Operator ID: 99043. Reported incident date: 4/29/2015 11:00. Location detail: #1 N TANKFARM Cause detail: DESIGN-, CONSTRUCTION-, INSTALLATION-, OR FABRICATION-RELATED Cause detail: AT 11:00 ON 4/29/2015, TERMINAL MANAGER IDENTIFIED AN AREA OF SATURATED SOIL NEXT TO TANK #104 THAT APPEARED ABOUT 2' IN DISTANCE FROM THE TANK BOTTOM AND WAS 8-10' IN LENGTH. THE SOIL SMELLED OF GASOLINE AND TANK BOTTOM WATER. UNINTENTIONAL RELEASE OF PRODUCT ESTIMATED AT 5-10 GALS. TERMINAL MANAGER IMMEDIATELY CALLED TERMINAL PERSONNEL FOR ASSISTANCE TO EMPTY TANK AND REMOVE CONTAMINATED SOIL. AT 11:50, TANK STRIPPING BEGAN AND WAS COMPLETED AT 07:45 ON 4/30/15. CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS REMOVED BY FACILITY PERSONNEL AND PLACED INTO A 55 GALLON DRUM FOR DISPOSAL. IN THE MEANTIME, NOTIFICATIONS WERE COMPLETED TO NRC, MDE AND MARYLAND PSC BY 12:30. THE TANK WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1963. IN 2006 A NEW TANK FLOOR WAS INSTALLED. PRIOR TO THIS INCIDENT, THE MOST RECENT OUT-OF-SERVICE API 653 INSPECTION WAS PERFORMED IN 2006 IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE INSTALLATION OF NEW FLOOR. AS A DIRECT RESULT OF THIS INCIDENT AND SUBSEQUENT REPAIRS, AN API 653 OUT-OF-SERVICE INSPECTION WAS COMPLETED ON 5/22/15. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION OR FABRICATION-RELATED. PHMSA indexed costs: $137,575 reported total cost, $69,016.814 in 1984 dollars, $169,967.171 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: `fca42e506fe254411b9e412ac78f76df8a99d0c5074f17c99d0fe55f85b764b2` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-24T17:10:05.168Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-78e74d13a8082524fca55acf` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "hazardous_liquid", "datasetLabel": "Hazardous liquid", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20150225", "supplementalNumber": "21226", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2015-06-18", "receivedDateRaw": "6/18/2015" }, "operator": { "id": "99043", "name": "PETROLEUM FUEL AND TERMINAL COMPANY" }, "incident": { "date": "2015-04-29", "dateRaw": "4/29/2015 11:00" }, "location": { "city": "BALTIMORE", "county": "Not Within a County or Parish", "state": "MD", "postalCode": "21205", "latitude": 39.305031, "longitude": -76.557206, "type": "TOTALLY CONTAINED ON OPERATOR-CONTROLLED PROPERTY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "#1 N TANKFARM" }, "facilityName": "ERDMAN AVENUE TERMINAL" }, "cause": { "category": "MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "DESIGN-, CONSTRUCTION-, INSTALLATION-, OR FABRICATION-RELATED", "NARRATIVE": "AT 11:00 ON 4/29/2015, TERMINAL MANAGER IDENTIFIED AN AREA OF SATURATED SOIL NEXT TO TANK #104 THAT APPEARED ABOUT 2' IN DISTANCE FROM THE TANK BOTTOM AND WAS 8-10' IN LENGTH. THE SOIL SMELLED OF GASOLINE AND TANK BOTTOM WATER. UNINTENTIONAL RELEASE OF PRODUCT ESTIMATED AT 5-10 GALS. TERMINAL MANAGER IMMEDIATELY CALLED TERMINAL PERSONNEL FOR ASSISTANCE TO EMPTY TANK AND REMOVE CONTAMINATED SOIL. AT 11:50, TANK STRIPPING BEGAN AND WAS COMPLETED AT 07:45 ON 4/30/15. CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS REMOVED BY FACILITY PERSONNEL AND PLACED INTO A 55 GALLON DRUM FOR DISPOSAL. IN THE MEANTIME, NOTIFICATIONS WERE COMPLETED TO NRC, MDE AND MARYLAND PSC BY 12:30. THE TANK WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1963. IN 2006 A NEW TANK FLOOR WAS INSTALLED. PRIOR TO THIS INCIDENT, THE MOST RECENT OUT-OF-SERVICE API 653 INSPECTION WAS PERFORMED IN 2006 IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE INSTALLATION OF NEW FLOOR. 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