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PHMSA Report 19980170
NATGAS INC. — Gas distribution — incident on 1998-08-05
Current as of 1998-08-05 Government source
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Gas distribution incident in OZONA, CROCKETT County, TX. Reported cause: OTHER. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 3 injuries, $50,000 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: 19980170.
Operator ID: 920.
Reported incident date: 19980805.
Cause detail: CUSTOMER SMELLED GAS IN HOUSE, OPENED WINDOW AND LIGHT LIGHTER TO FIND LEAK.HOUSE EXPLODED.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, serious incident.
PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — MISCELLANEOUS.
PHMSA indexed costs: $50,000 reported total cost, $34,922.424 in 1984 dollars, $86,003.183 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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