{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20190036","title":"ENLINK LBU-GAS&LIQUIDS — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2019-03-04","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2019-03-29","effective_on":"2019-03-04","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, DESOTO County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 NATURAL GAS released, $131,536 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.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-1a1784c60b36df969450f996.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-1a1784c60b36df969450f996.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-1a1784c60b36df969450f996","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 Not Within a Municipality, DESOTO County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 NATURAL GAS released, $131,536 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: 20190036.\n\nOperator ID: 32005.\n\nReported incident date: 3/4/2019 15:20.\n\nLocation detail: MP16.43\n\nCause detail: EXTERNAL CORROSION\n\nCause detail: DURING THE ANNUAL CP SURVEY, OPERATIONS PERSONNEL FOUND AN APPARENT SMALL LEAK INSIDE A CASING AT A RAILROAD CROSSING. THE LEL ON THE VENT PIPE WAS FOUND TO BE 15%. IF THE REPAIR COST DID NOT EXCEED THE $50,000 THRESHOLD, THIS INCIDENT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN REPORTABLE. THE ACTUAL LEAK WAS A MINOR PIN HOLE INSIDE THE CASING. IT APPEARS THE COATING WAS DAMAGED DURING THE INITIAL INSTALLATION OF THE CROSSING. THE CASING WAS NOT SHORTED. THE ESTIMATED GAS LOSS IS <1MCF.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $131,964 reported total cost, $62,075.264 in 1984 dollars, $152,324.338 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":1440}