{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Hazmat Incident X-2012010181","title":"PHMSA Hazmat Incident X-2012010181 — SULFURIC ACID — Herington, KS","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":null,"effective_on":"2012-01-08","summary":"Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 2012-01-08 in Herington, KS.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-hazmat-incident-x-2012010181.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-hazmat-incident-x-2012010181.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-hazmat-incident-x-2012010181","source_url":"https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/PDFGenerator/getPublicReport/OHMIR_5800-1-PUBLIC?INCIDENTID=43oIi%2B8dq%2FoMWGZNs%2BXE0Q%3D%3D","body":"PHMSA hazardous materials incident report X-2012010181.\nIncident date: 2012-01-08.\nLocation: Herington, KS.\nMode: Rail.\nCarrier/reporter: Union Pacific Railroad.\nShipper: Norfalco Sales, Inc.\nMaterials: UN1830; SULFURIC ACID; hazard class 8; 12172 LGA released.\nWhat failed: Tank Shell.\nHow failed: Ripped or Torn.\nReported failure causes: Stub Sill Separation from Tank (Tank Cars).\nReported result: Spillage, Material Entered Waterway/Storm Sewer, Environmental Damage.\nReporter-submitted DOT Form 5800.1 data may be incomplete, corrected, supplemented, or misreported. A record, serious-incident classification, failure description, or relationship to a reporting rule is not a PHMSA causal finding, compliance determination, or finding of a violation.","truncated":false,"body_characters":755}