# TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-08-01

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20160069
- **title:** TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-08-01
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2016-08-29
- **effective on:** 2016-08-01
- **summary:** Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, POWELL County, KY. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 48266 NATURAL GAS released, $30,000 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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Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, POWELL County, KY. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 48266 NATURAL GAS released, $30,000 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: 20160069.

Operator ID: 19160.

Reported incident date: 8/1/2016 14:30.

Location detail: 17, 8+75

Cause detail: LIGHTNING

Cause detail: A HEAVY THUNDER STORM PASSED OVER TGP COMPRESSOR STATION 106 WITH LIGHTNING STRIKE CAUSING STATION ESD SYSTEM TO ACTIVATE. YARD VALVE 106-1D (24-INCH VALVE AND 24" PIPE) DID NOT CLOSE PROPERLY; LIGHTNING CAUSED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO STATION HARDWARE; (INPUT / OUTPUT CARDS, CONTROLS, COMPONENTS); DAMAGE RESULTED IN SIGNAL LOST TO ESD SOLENOID ALLOWING REPORTABLE AMOUNT OF NATURAL GAS TO BE RELEASED TO ATMOSPHERE; ON SITE EMPLOYEE MANUALLY CLOSED VALVE TO STOP THE GAS RELEASE EVENT; OTHER REPLACEMENTS INCLUDED JACKET WATER PUMP MOTOR, LIGHTING, POWER SUPPLIES, AND FUSES. IT IS BELIEVED THE LIGHTNING STRIKE WAS A DIRECT HIT ON THE FACILITY. KINDER MORGAN ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP REPORTED AN OIL MIST SPRAY EVENT TO THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, KEEC, REPORT NUMBER 2414873; SAID SPRAY EVENT THE RESULT OF THE LIGHTNING STRIKE. THERE WAS NO IMPACT TO ANY WATER BODY. (LAT / LONG OF VALVE 106-1D IS 37.917951 AND -83.982775) (42-INCH YARD PIPE AND 750 PSIG MAOP EQUAL PIR OF 794-FEET)

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE — LIGHTNING.

PHMSA indexed costs: $138,750 reported total cost, $130,626.286 in 1984 dollars, $178,913.072 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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