{"operation":"document","citation":"P-78-043","title":"NTSB Safety Recommendation P-78-043","source_type":"guidance","agency":"National Transportation Safety Board","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"1978-07-31","effective_on":"1978-07-31","summary":"DEVELOP GUIDELINES FOR THE INSTALLATION AND OPERATION OF PIPELINE MONITORING ALARMS ON APPLICABLE SINGLE-FEED SYSTEMS, SUCH AS CHEROKEE, WHICH WILL PROMPTLY ALERT OPERATORS TO EMERGENCY CONDITIONS SUCH AS LINEBREAKS WHICH ARE EVIDENCED BY ABNORMALLY HIGH GAS FLOW RATES OR PRESSURE REDUCTIONS.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/ntsb-recommendation-p-78-043.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/ntsb-recommendation-p-78-043.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/ntsb-recommendation-p-78-043","source_url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/sr-details/P-78-043","body":"NTSB safety recommendation P-78-043.\n\nDEVELOP GUIDELINES FOR THE INSTALLATION AND OPERATION OF PIPELINE MONITORING ALARMS ON APPLICABLE SINGLE-FEED SYSTEMS, SUCH AS CHEROKEE, WHICH WILL PROMPTLY ALERT OPERATORS TO EMERGENCY CONDITIONS SUCH AS LINEBREAKS WHICH ARE EVIDENCED BY ABNORMALLY HIGH GAS FLOW RATES OR PRESSURE REDUCTIONS.\n\nPriority: CLASS III\n\nOverall Status: Closed - Acceptable Action\n\nIssued Date: 1978-07-31\n\nAdopted Date: 1978-07-14\n\nOverall Date Closed: 1987-01-12\n\nSynopsis: ON JULY 30, 1977, A LOW-ORDER EXPLOSION FOLLOWED BY FIRE DESTROYED A HOUSE IN CHEROKEE, ALABAMA. ONE PERSON IN THE HOUSE SUFFERED THIRD-DEGREE BURNS, WAS HOSPITALIZED, AND DIED.\n\nNtsbnumber: DCA77FP028\n\nReport Number: None\n\nAddressee Name: American Society of Mechanical Engineers\n\nAddressee Status: Closed - Acceptable Action\n\nAddressee Date Closed: 1987-01-12\n\nAddressee Acronym: ASME\n\nAddressee Organization Type: A-Associations\n\nCommunication Date: 1978-09-06\n\nCommunication Type: Official Correspondence\n\nCommunication Contents: ASME LTR: ASME-GPSC IS REVIEWING THIS RECOMMENDATION.\n\nAddressee Acronym: ASME\n\nAddressee Organization Type: A-Associations\n\nCommunication Date: 1986-10-08\n\nCommunication Type: Official Correspondence\n\nCommunication Contents: THE COMMITTEE AGREES THAT THERE IS MERIT TO NTSB'S RECOMMEN DATION P-78-43. IN ESTABLISHING GUIDELINES FOR TELEMETERING AT SINGLE FEED DISTRIBUTION STATIONS, THE COMMITTEE BELIEVES THAT THE GUIDELINES SHOULD BE BASED ON PARAMETERS SUCH AS FEASIBILITY, ECONOMIC PRACTICALITY, PROBABILITY OF PIPELINE FAILURE, PROXIMITY TO OPERATING HEADQUARTERS, RISK ANALYSIS AND SYSTEM SAFETY. THE COMMITTEE HAS REVIEWED THE ABOVE PARAMETERS AND HAS DEVELOPED GUIDE MATERIAL FOR 192.741(B) OF 49 CFR PART 192 FOR THE ASME GUIDE FOR GAS TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION PIPING SYSTEMS (GUIDE). THE GUIDE MATERIAL IS ATTACHED. IT RECEIVED THE FULL ASME APPROVAL NECESSARY FOR PUBLICATION AND HAS BEEN PUBLISHED AS A PART OF ADDENDA 1 TO THE 1986 EDITION OF THE GUIDE.\n\nAddressee Acronym: ASME\n\nAddressee Organization Type: A-Associations\n\nCommunication Date: 1987-01-12\n\nCommunication Type: Official Correspondence\n\nAddressee Acronym: ASME\n\nAddressee Organization Type: A-Associations\n\nCommunication Date: 1985-07-29\n\nCommunication Type: Official Correspondence","truncated":false,"body_characters":2292}