# CITGO PRODUCTS PIPELINE CO — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2020-10-10

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20200302  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2020-10-10  
**Published:** 2020-11-09

Hazardous liquid incident in Not Within a Municipality, CALCASIEU County, LA. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.35 HVL OR OTHER FLAMMABLE OR TOXIC FLUID WHICH IS A GAS AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $0 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: not significant, not serious.

## Document text

Hazardous liquid incident in Not Within a Municipality, CALCASIEU County, LA. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.35 HVL OR OTHER FLAMMABLE OR TOXIC FLUID WHICH IS A GAS AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $0 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: 20200302.

Operator ID: 30755.

Reported incident date: 10/10/2020 12:00.

Location detail: IN FACILITY

Cause detail: HIGH WINDS

Cause detail: A LIGHTPOLE BROKE DURING HIGH WINDS FROM HURRICANE DELTA AND FELL ONTO A PIPELINE VALVE. THE HANDWHEEL ON THE VALVE WAS BROKEN AS WELL AS A VALVE GREASE PLUG. THE C3 MIX WAS RELEASED AT A VERY SLOW RATE FROM THE BROKEN GREASE PLUG. A NEW VALVE HAS BEEN INSTALLED AND IS OPERATIONAL. THE ACCIDENT WAS CAUSED BY A NATURAL FORCE (HURRICANE). THERE ARE NO NEEDED MEASURES TO TAKE FOR FUTURE PREVENTION OF THIS ACCIDENT.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE — HIGH WINDS.

PHMSA indexed costs: $30,030 reported total cost, $13,885.349 in 1984 dollars, $34,195.341 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/1d547e17-2be1-4a32-9958-a1d5a946ade9?download=true&filename=Hazardous%20Liquid%20Accident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip>
- Source ID: `phmsa-pipeline-incidents`
- SHA-256: `45dde26a6ae42e5362f0833c2664e63d8919ede798b618ce62b6ce8bb61a4c06`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-24T09:09:34.243Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-ee6a6a5f3b730a6f9337276e`

### Source metadata

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