# PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2008-08-25

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20090030  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2008-08-25  
**Published:** 2008-09-23

Gas transmission and gathering incident in PILOT GROVE, COOPER County, MO. Reported cause: 1. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $1,046,359 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 PILOT GROVE, COOPER County, MO. Reported cause: 1. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $1,046,359 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: 20090030.

Operator ID: 15105.

Reported incident date: 8/25/2008.

Cause detail: CORROSION, EXTERNAL

Cause detail: TENSILE OVERLOAD AT AN AREA OF WALL THINNING AT THE 6:00 CLOCK ORIENTATION DUE TO EXTERNAL CORROSION.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $1,046,359 reported total cost, $533,331.859 in 1984 dollars, $1,104,461.197 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: <https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/3f48859a-5658-4f64-acf0-e33e632af625?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%202002%20to%20December%202009.zip>
- Source ID: `phmsa-pipeline-incidents`
- SHA-256: `31affb59492c4be75c1d020f6b378cd3012622b2480740168fcd2f0c461d59ac`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-23T12:49:46.676Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-b4ee057b0bc2718d488cbbb4`

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