# PAULSBORO NATURAL GAS PIPELINE COMPANY, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-08-04 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20170090 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2014-08-04 **Published:** 2017-10-11 Gas transmission and gathering incident in TINICUM TOWNSHIP, DELAWARE COUNTY County, PA. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1563 NATURAL GAS released, $2,579,970 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 TINICUM TOWNSHIP, DELAWARE COUNTY County, PA. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1563 NATURAL GAS released, $2,579,970 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: 20170090. Operator ID: 32557. Reported incident date: 8/4/2014 21:15. Location detail: 18+85 Cause detail: EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY THIRD PARTY Cause detail: MISCELLANEOUS ROOT CAUSES Cause detail: ROOT CAUSE NOT LISTED (COMMENT REQUIRED) Cause detail: AT APPROX. 9:56 PM ON 08/04/2014, LT. ERIC NIELSON OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD NOTIFIED THE PAULSBORO NATURAL GAS PIPELINE COMPANY (PNGPC) OF A DREDGE VESSEL APPROXIMATE TO THE PAULSBORO REFINING COMPANY'S FACILITY REPORTING POSSIBLE DAMAGE TO THE GAS PIPELINE. OPERATING PERSONNEL ISOLATED THE PNGPC 8-INCH CROSS-RIVER NATURAL GAS PIPELINE BY APPROX. 10:00 PM. THE DREDGE WAS LATER REPORTED BY THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD TO BE THE GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK BARGE "PADRE ISLAND," WORKING UNDER THE UNITED STATES ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, DREDGING IN THE BILLINGSPORT RANGE OF THE DELAWARE RIVER. THE BARGE CAME INTO CONTACT WITH THE PNGPC 8-INCH CROSS-RIVER NATURAL GAS PIPELINE. IN THAT CONTACT, THE PIPE WAS DAMAGED. DIVERS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY DISPATCHED TO SURVEY THE DAMAGE TO THE PNGPC NATURAL GAS PIPELINE. THE SURVEY INDICATES THAT THE PNGPC NATURAL GAS PIPELINE HAD BEEN SEVERED. AT THE TIME OF THIS REPORT (THE ORIGINAL GAS DISTRIBUTION REPORT ON 09/02/2014), PNGPC IS FORMULATING A REPAIR PLAN THAT THE COMPANY WILL INITIATE WITHIN 30 DAYS. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE. PHMSA indexed costs: $2,583,595 reported total cost, $1,311,631.168 in 1984 dollars, $3,227,047.32 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: `8bf4c2ba1c0739922ff89614031d6de98b6f517330f6ec3d9d88b28265119ab0` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-26T10:09:20.957Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-79a6fbc815bc54da574ea8dc` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20170090", "supplementalNumber": "17467", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2017-10-11", "receivedDateRaw": "10/11/2017" }, "operator": { "id": "32557", "name": "PAULSBORO NATURAL GAS PIPELINE COMPANY, LLC" }, "incident": { "date": "2014-08-04", "dateRaw": "8/4/2014 21:15" }, "location": { "city": "TINICUM TOWNSHIP", "county": "DELAWARE COUNTY", "state": "PA", "postalCode": "19029", "latitude": 39.854089, "longitude": -75.259958, "type": "PIPELINE RIGHT-OF-WAY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "18+85" }, "facilityName": "PAULSBORO NATURAL GAS PIPELINE COMPANY LLC" }, "cause": { "category": "EXCAVATION DAMAGE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY THIRD PARTY", "ROOT_CAUSE_CATEGORY": "MISCELLANEOUS ROOT CAUSES", "ROOT_CAUSE_TYPE": "ROOT CAUSE NOT LISTED (COMMENT REQUIRED)", "NARRATIVE": "AT APPROX. 9:56 PM ON 08/04/2014, LT. ERIC NIELSON OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD NOTIFIED THE PAULSBORO NATURAL GAS PIPELINE COMPANY (PNGPC) OF A DREDGE VESSEL APPROXIMATE TO THE PAULSBORO REFINING COMPANY'S FACILITY REPORTING POSSIBLE DAMAGE TO THE GAS PIPELINE. OPERATING PERSONNEL ISOLATED THE PNGPC 8-INCH CROSS-RIVER NATURAL GAS PIPELINE BY APPROX. 10:00 PM. THE DREDGE WAS LATER REPORTED BY THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD TO BE THE GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK BARGE \"PADRE ISLAND,\" WORKING UNDER THE UNITED STATES ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, DREDGING IN THE BILLINGSPORT RANGE OF THE DELAWARE RIVER. THE BARGE CAME INTO CONTACT WITH THE PNGPC 8-INCH CROSS-RIVER NATURAL GAS PIPELINE. IN THAT CONTACT, THE PIPE WAS DAMAGED. DIVERS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY DISPATCHED TO SURVEY THE DAMAGE TO THE PNGPC NATURAL GAS PIPELINE. THE SURVEY INDICATES THAT THE PNGPC NATURAL GAS PIPELINE HAD BEEN SEVERED. AT THE TIME OF THIS REPORT (THE ORIGINAL GAS DISTRIBUTION REPORT ON 09/02/2014), PNGPC IS FORMULATING A REPAIR PLAN THAT THE COMPANY WILL INITIATE WITHIN 30 DAYS." } }, "consequences": { "fatalities": 0, "injuries": 0, "commodity": "NATURAL GAS", "release": "1563", "propertyDamage": 2579970, "estimatedOperatorCost": 0, "estimatedEmergencyCost": 0, "estimatedEnvironmentalCost": null, "ignition": "NO", "explosion": "NO", "evacuated": 0, "raw": { "FATAL": "0", "INJURE": "0", "UNINTENTIONAL_RELEASE": "1563", "EST_COST_PROP_DAMAGE": "2579970", "PRPTY": "2583595" } }, "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": 1450, "rowSha256": "a4f27ee5e6444550e81809befbef7a8b24d6411974d7b10a893b0b7d700edaff" }, "caveat": "Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. 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