DIXIE PIPELINE — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2010-07-05

Hazardous liquid incident in THOMSON, MCDUFFIE County, GA. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 1 fatalities, 1 injuries, 3104 HVL OR OTHER FLAMMABLE OR TOXIC FLUID WHICH IS A GAS AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $345,058 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: 20100163.

Operator ID: 3445.

Reported incident date: 7/5/2010 10:40.

Location detail: 817.11

Cause detail: EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY THIRD PARTY

Cause detail: NOTIFICATION ISSUE

Cause detail: NO NOTIFICATION MADE TO THE ONE-CALL CENTER/811

Cause detail: ON JULY 5, 2010, A PRIVATE LANDOWNER WAS PERFORMING ROAD WORK ON HIS PROPERTY ADJACENT TO A POND AND WITHIN THE DIXIE PIPELINE DESIGNATED ROW. THE LANDOWNER DID NOT CONTACT ONE-CALL AND DID NOT CONTACT DIXIE. THE LANDOWNER HIT THE 8-INCH DIXIE PIPELINE ON HIS PROPERTY WITH HIS DOZER. A GOUGE AND SPLIT FROM THE DOZER THAT PENETRATED THROUGH THE WALL OF THE PIPELINE RESULTED IN A RELEASE OF PROPANE THAT LED TO A SUBSEQUENT EXPLOSION AND FIRE. THE LANDOWNER, WHO WAS OPERATING THE DOZER, WAS INJURED BY THE RELEASE. ONE FATALITY RESULTED FROM THE SUBSEQUENT EXPLOSION AND FIRE WITH ADDITIONAL PROPERTY DAMAGE ENSUING. THE OPERATOR TOOK IMMEDIATE ACTION TO ISOLATE THE PIPELINE AND REDUCE THE IMPACT TO THE PUBLIC AND THE ENVIRONMENT.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, serious incident.

PHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $524,275 reported total cost, $286,864.37 in 1984 dollars, $706,458.656 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.