{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20170083","title":"BLUESTONE PIPELINE COMPANY OF PA, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2017-09-02","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2017-09-27","effective_on":"2017-09-02","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in SUSQUEHANNA, SUSQUEHANNA County, PA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 10800 NATURAL GAS released, $1,015 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: not significant, not serious.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-1778f26edbcc9cd3acca56c6.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-1778f26edbcc9cd3acca56c6.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-1778f26edbcc9cd3acca56c6","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip","body":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in SUSQUEHANNA, SUSQUEHANNA County, PA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 10800 NATURAL GAS released, $1,015 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.\n\nReport number: 20170083.\n\nOperator ID: 38932.\n\nReported incident date: 9/2/2017 1:02.\n\nLocation detail: MILEPOST 10.5\n\nCause detail: COMPRESSOR OR COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT\n\nCause detail: SECOND NRC REPORT NUMBER (48 HOUR) IS 1189751. HARMONY COMPRESSOR STATION (HCS) HAD AN UNINTENTIONAL RELEASE OF NATURAL GAS ON SEPTEMBER 2, 2017, FROM APPROXIMATELY 01:02 TO 02:41. A LOCAL NEIGHBOR TO HCS CONTACTED 911 TO REPORT THE EVENT. AFTER SUCH, 911 CONTACTED DTE GAS CONTROL AT 01:02. DTE GAS CONTROL CONTACTED THE ON CALL TECHNICIAN TO INFORM THEM THAT A REPORT OF BLOWING GAS HAD BEEN MADE. THE TECHNICIAN, UPON ARRIVAL AT HCS, DISCOVERED THAT THE PILOT FOR UNIT 2 RELIEF VALVE HAD FAILED. AT 02:41, THE TECHNICIAN PUSHED THE EMERGENCY SHUT DOWN BUTTON AND UNIT 2 BECAME INACTIVE. UPON TAKING UNIT 2 OUT OF SERVICE, THE TECHNICIAN REPAIRED THE PILOT AND THEN PLACED UNIT 2 BACK INTO SERVICE AT 03:43. AFTER INVESTIGATION INTO THE MATTER, IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THE PILOT HAD FAILED DUE TO A PREVIOUS VIBRATION ISSUE ON UNIT 2. THE INCIDENT AND INVESTIGATION WAS DISCUSSED WITH THE PA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION AFTER THE FAILURE OCCURRED.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — PUMP/COMPRESSOR OR PUMP/COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $34,051 reported total cost, $31,723.491 in 1984 dollars, $39,749.001 in current-year dollars.\n\nPHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings.","truncated":false,"body_characters":1987}