# SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-10-13

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20150397
- **title:** SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-10-13
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2015-11-11
- **effective on:** 2015-10-13
- **summary:** Hazardous liquid incident in HONEYBROOK, CHESTER County, PA. Reported cause: INCORRECT OPERATION. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 215 REFINED AND/OR PETROLEUM PRODUCT (NON-HVL) WHICH IS A LIQUID AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $0 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.
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Hazardous liquid incident in HONEYBROOK, CHESTER County, PA. Reported cause: INCORRECT OPERATION. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 215 REFINED AND/OR PETROLEUM PRODUCT (NON-HVL) WHICH IS A LIQUID AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $0 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: 20150397.

Operator ID: 18718.

Reported incident date: 10/13/2015 20:00.

Location detail: 0+00

Cause detail: VALVE LEFT OR PLACED IN WRONG POSITION, BUT NOT RESULTING IN A TANK, VESSEL, OR SUMP/SEPARATOR OVERFLOW OR FACILITY OVERPRESSURE

Cause detail: TANK 1 AT ICEDALE TANK FARM WAS BEING REFILLED AND RETURNED FROM INACTIVE STATUS. AT APPROXIMATELY 20:00 HOURS A RELEASE OF ULTRA LOW SULFUR DIESEL (ULSD) WAS DISCOVERED IN TANK 1 CONTAINMENT DIKE BY A COMPANY EMPLOYEE. THE SOURCE OF THE RELEASE WAS IDENTIFIED AS AN OPEN, UNPLUGGED WATER DRAW VALVE WHICH WAS IMMEDIATELY CLOSED. THE RELEASE WAS CONTAINED WITHIN THE TANK CONTAINMENT DIKE ON OPERATOR PROPERTY. NOTIFICATIONS WERE MADE TO SUPERVISION AND OIL SPILL RESPONSE PERSONNEL WERE DISPATCHED TO ASSIST WITH RELEASE CLEANUP. THE IMMEDIATE ROOT CAUSE OF THE SPILL WAS IDENTIFIED AS AN OPEN, UNPLUGGED WATER DRAW VALVE. A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR WAS ATTRIBUTED TO MISCOMMUNICATION TO ENSURE THE WATER DRAW VALVE WAS CLOSED USING THE TANK CLOSURE CHECKLIST DURING TANK REACTIVATION ACTIVITIES.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: INCORRECT OPERATION — INCORRECT VALVE POSITION.

PHMSA indexed costs: $47,892 reported total cost, $24,025.828 in 1984 dollars, $59,168.219 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.
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