# MID - AMERICA PIPELINE CO (MAPCO) — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2002-02-21

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20020069  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2002-02-21  
**Published:** 2002-02-21

Hazardous liquid incident in CLARK County, KS. Reported cause: 24. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, YES PROPANE - ETHANE MIX released, $847 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 CLARK County, KS. Reported cause: 24. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, YES PROPANE - ETHANE MIX released, $847 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: 20020069.

Operator ID: 12452.

Reported incident date: 2/21/2002.

Cause detail: MISCELLANEOUS

Cause detail: SEAL ON NUMBER 3 PUMP LEAKED PRODUCT INTERMITTINGLY. TECHNICIAN HAD TO BLOW DOWN PRODUCT IN THE PUMP TO THE ATMOSPHER SO HE COULD REPLACE THE SEAL. AMOUNT OF PRODUCT BLOWN DOWN, INCLUDING AMOUNT LOST FROM THE LEAK IS ESTIMATED AT 5.5 BARRELS

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — MISCELLANEOUS.

PHMSA indexed costs: $847 reported total cost, $550.148 in 1984 dollars, $1,354.845 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/928038f8-523b-4003-aeff-79675b193086?download=true&filename=Hazardous%20Liquid%20Accident%20Data%20-%20January%202002%20to%20December%202009.zip>
- Source ID: `phmsa-pipeline-incidents`
- SHA-256: `d9392277af8e80bed54d678598fc33172fc1e43a955a6206ed4a19ce10000944`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-24T09:41:14.753Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-fa5d5493d02ea9cd62d9ee26`

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