{"operation":"document","citation":"P-95-009","title":"NTSB Safety Recommendation P-95-009","source_type":"guidance","agency":"National Transportation Safety Board","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"1995-02-07","effective_on":"1995-02-07","summary":"THE NTSB RECOMMENDS THAT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATION: ADVISE YOUR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS ADDRESSED IN THIS ACCIDENT REPORT & URGE THEM TO IMPLEMENT THE IMPROVEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD'S REPORT 219.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/ntsb-recommendation-p-95-009.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/ntsb-recommendation-p-95-009.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/ntsb-recommendation-p-95-009","source_url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/sr-details/P-95-009","body":"NTSB safety recommendation P-95-009.\n\nTHE NTSB RECOMMENDS THAT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATION: ADVISE YOUR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS ADDRESSED IN THIS ACCIDENT REPORT & URGE THEM TO IMPLEMENT THE IMPROVEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD'S REPORT 219.\n\nPriority: CLASS II\n\nOverall Status: Closed - Unacceptable Action - No Response Received\n\nIssued Date: 1995-02-07\n\nAdopted Date: 1995-01-18\n\nOverall Date Closed: 2001-02-26\n\nSynopsis: ABOUT 11:55 ON 3/23/94, A 36-INCH DIAMETER PIPELINE OWNED & OPERATED BY TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION CORPORTION (TETCO) RUPTURED CATASTROPHICALLY IN EDISON TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY, WITHIN AN ASPHALT PLANT COMPOUND. THE FORCE OF THE RUPTURE & OF NATURAL GAS ESCAPING AT A PRESSURE OF ABOUT 970 PSIG (POUNDS PER SQUARE INCH GUAGE) EXCAVATED THE SOIL AROUND THE PIPE & BLEW GAS HUNDREDS OF FEET INTO THE AIR, PROPELLING PIPE FRAGMENTS, ROCKS, & DEBRIS MORE THAN 800 FEET. WITHIN 1 TO 2 MINUTES OF THE RUPTURE, ONE OF SEVERAL POSSIBLE SOURCES IGNITED THE ESCAPING GAS, SENDING FLAMES UPWARD 400 TO 500 FEET IN THE AIR. HEAT RADIATING FROM THE MASSIVE FIRE IGNITED THE ROOFS OF SEVERAL BUILDING ROOFS IN A NEARBY APARTMENT COMPLEX. OCCUPANTS, ALERTED TO THE EMERGENCY BY NOISES FROM ESCAPING GAS & ROCKS HITTING THE ROOFS, FLED FROM THE BURNING BUILDINGS. APPROXIMATELY 1,500 APARTMENT RESIDENTS WERE EVACUATED. MIRACULOUSLY, NO DEATHS DIRECTLY RESULTED FROM THE RUPTURE & RESULTING FIRE. MOST INJURIES WERE MINOR FOOT BURNS & CUTS THAT THE APARTMENT RESIDENTS SUSTAINED FROM THE HOT PAVEMENT & GLASS SHARDS AS THEY FLED THE COMPLEX. DAMAGE FROM THE ACCIDENT EXCEEDED &25 MILLION.\n\nProbable Cause: None\n\nNtsbnumber: DCA94MP001\n\nReport Number: PAR-95-01\n\nAddressee Name: American Public Works Association\n\nAddressee Status: Closed - Unacceptable Action - No Response Received\n\nAddressee Date Closed: 2001-02-26\n\nAddressee Acronym: APWA\n\nAddressee Organization Type: A-Associations\n\nCommunication Date: 2001-02-26\n\nCommunication Type: Official Correspondence\n\nCommunication Contents: On June 7, 2000, the National Transportation Safety Board sent the American Public Works Association (APWA) a letter requesting information on the status of safety recommendations about which we have never received a response. As noted in the Safety Board’s letter of March 12, 1998, APWA and Safety Board staff met to discuss the 1997 recommendations with the expectation that an APWA follow-on response would be forthcoming. As there has never been a response from APWA to the Board’s June 7, 2000, letter on any of these issues, Safety Recommendations P-95-8 and -9, and P-97-25 through -33, are classified \"Closed--Unacceptable Action, No Response Received.\"\n\nAddressee Acronym: APWA\n\nAddressee Organization Type: A-Associations\n\nCommunication Date: 2000-06-07\n\nCommunication Type: Official Correspondence\n\nCommunication Contents: TO DATE, THE SAFETY BOARD HAS RECEIVED NO RESPONSE FROM APWA AND WOULD APPRECIATE BEING INFORMED ABOUT EFFORTS THAT HAVE BEEN OR ARE BEING MADE TO IMPLEMENT THESE SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS.","truncated":false,"body_characters":3071}