# SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-09-22

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20150368
- **title:** SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-09-22
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2015-10-21
- **effective on:** 2015-09-22
- **summary:** Hazardous liquid incident in RANGER, EASTLAND County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2 CRUDE OIL released, $1,000 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: not significant, not serious.
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Hazardous liquid incident in RANGER, EASTLAND County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2 CRUDE OIL released, $1,000 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: 20150368.

Operator ID: 18718.

Reported incident date: 9/22/2015 17:10.

Location detail: 140.4

Cause detail: NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE

Cause detail: DURING A FACILITY CHECK ON 9/22/2015 OPERATION PERSONNEL DISCOVERED A RELEASE AT EASTLAND STATION. INVESTIGATION DETERMINED THAT THE LEAK WAS FROM A STEM SEAL PACKING FAILURE ON A 24" BLOCK VALVE. THE TECHNICIAN REPLACED THE PACKING WHICH STOPPED THE LEAK. THE CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS REMOVED FOR PROPER DISPOSAL.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $3,585 reported total cost, $1,798.476 in 1984 dollars, $4,429.092 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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