PHMSA Report 19980187
PHMSA Report 19980187
Gas transmission and gathering incident in GERONIMO, GUADALUPE County, TX. Reported cause: CONSTRUCTION/MATERIAL DEFECT. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $347,361 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: 19980187.
Operator ID: 14026.
Reported incident date: 19980802.
Cause detail: LEAK RESULTED FROM A CRACK WHICH DEVELOPED IN THE BODY OF A MAINLINE VALVE.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL/WELD/EQUIP FAILURE — UNSPECIFIED MATERIAL/WELD FAILURE.
PHMSA indexed costs: $347,361 reported total cost, $242,613.763 in 1984 dollars, $597,483.03 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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