PHMSA Report 20150066 - PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-04-13 | Regulus

Gas transmission and gathering incident in DIXON, SOLANO COUNTY County, CA. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 NATURAL GAS released, $85,000 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: 20150066.

Operator ID: 15007.

Reported incident date: 4/13/2015 11:13.

Location detail: MP 6.71

Cause detail: EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY THIRD PARTY

Cause detail: NOTIFICATION ISSUE

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

Cause detail: AT 1113 HOURS ON APRIL 13, 2015, PG&E WAS NOTIFIED OF A LEAK NEAR MAINE PRAIRIE ROAD AND ROBBEN ROAD IN DIXON. A PG&E GAS SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (GSR) ARRIVED ON SCENE AT 1150 HOURS. A THIRD-PARTY DIG-IN OCCURRED ON PG&E'S TRANSMISSION LINE L-220 AT MILEPOINT (MP) 6.71 THAT RESULTED IN AN UNINTENTIONAL RELEASE OF GAS. THE THIRD-PARTY, GLI-CO FARMS, OPERATED A GRADER AND STRUCK PG&E'S TRANSMISSION LINE. THE THIRD PARTY DID NOT CALL USA. AT 1622 HOURS, GAS WAS SHUT IN BY ISOLATING A PORTION OF THE LINE. NO CUSTOMERS LOST GAS SERVICE AS A RESULT OF THIS INCIDENT. FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS ON SCENE. THERE WERE NO INJURIES OR FATALITIES AND NO IGNITION AS A RESULT OF THIS INCIDENT. AT 2245 HOURS ON APRIL 13, 2015, THE PIPELINE ENGINEER REPORTED THAT THIS INCIDENT WILL LIKELY EXCEED $50,000 IN DAMAGES AND THEREFORE IT WAS REPORTED TO THE CPUC AND DOT. LESS THAN 3 MMCF OF GAS WAS UNINTENTIONALLY RELEASED DURING THE INCIDENT. (PLEASE NOTE THE RESPONSE TO PART C, QUESTION 6 SHOULD BE "1MM BY 1MM" INSTEAD.)

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

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

PHMSA indexed costs: $87,150 reported total cost, $44,635.225 in 1984 dollars, $107,461.105 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.