{"operation":"document","citation":"P-76-015","title":"NTSB Safety Recommendation P-76-015","source_type":"guidance","agency":"National Transportation Safety Board","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"1976-06-22","effective_on":"1976-06-22","summary":"REWRITE PORTIONS OF ITS PROCEDURES MANUALS TO PROHIBIT THE ROUTINE PARKING OF VEHICLES IN TERMINAL OR STATION BUILDINGS WHERE HAZARDOUS PRODUCTS ARE HANDLED.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/ntsb-recommendation-p-76-015.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/ntsb-recommendation-p-76-015.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/ntsb-recommendation-p-76-015","source_url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/sr-details/P-76-015","body":"NTSB safety recommendation P-76-015.\n\nREWRITE PORTIONS OF ITS PROCEDURES MANUALS TO PROHIBIT THE ROUTINE PARKING OF VEHICLES IN TERMINAL OR STATION BUILDINGS WHERE HAZARDOUS PRODUCTS ARE HANDLED.\n\nPriority: CLASS II\n\nOverall Status: Closed - Acceptable Alternate Action\n\nIssued Date: 1976-06-22\n\nAdopted Date: 1976-04-27\n\nOverall Date Closed: 1978-09-29\n\nSynopsis: ON JANUARY 17, 1975, A PIPE RUPTURED AT THE MID-VALLEY PIPELINE COMPANY'S LIMA, OHIO, CRUDE OIL TERMINAL. A MOTOR-OPERATED VALVE WITHIN THE TERMINAL HAD BEEN CLOSED INADVERTENTLY AND PRESSURE HAD BUILT UP. A 14-INCH LONG CRACK DEVELOPED. CRUDE OIL WAS SPRAYED FROM THE CRACK, ATOMIZED, IGNITED, AND BURNED; FLAMES RESULTED WHICH WERE MORE THAN 100 FEET HIGH. ATTEMPTS TO EXTINGUISH THE FIRE AND TO SHUT OFF VALVES TO THE TERMINAL WERE HAMPERED. THE FIRE DESTROYED THE TERMINAL BUILDINGS AND KILLED THE TERMINAL DELIVERYMAN.\n\nNtsbnumber: PLD75XR002\n\nReport Number: PAR-76-03\n\nAddressee Name: Mid-Valley Pipeline Company\n\nAddressee Status: Closed--No Longer Applicable\n\nAddressee Date Closed: 1978-09-29\n\nAddressee Organization Type: P-Private Industry\n\nCommunication Date: 1978-08-07\n\nCommunication Type: Official Correspondence\n\nCommunication Contents: MID-VALLEY PIPELINE CO. LTR: EXISTING PROCEDURES PROHIBITING ROUTINE PARKING OF VEHICLES IN OR NEAR BUILDINGS WHERE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ARE HANDLED HAVE BEEN ENFORCED.\n\nAddressee Organization Type: P-Private Industry\n\nCommunication Date: 1978-09-29\n\nCommunication Type: Official Correspondence","truncated":false,"body_characters":1511}