WILLIAMS GAS PIPELINE - TRANSCO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-04-02

Gas transmission and gathering incident in NORTH BERGEN, HUDSON County, NJ. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0 released, $280,000 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: 20120040.

Operator ID: 19570.

Reported incident date: 4/2/2012 2:00.

Location detail: 2.5

Cause detail: PREVIOUS MECHANICAL DAMAGE NOT RELATED TO EXCAVATION

Cause detail: OPERATOR EMPLOYEES AND THIRD PARTY CONTRACTORS WERE ON SITE OF AN ANOMALY INVESTIGATION DIG, OPERATOR EMPLOYEES WERE REMOVING SOIL AROUND THE PIPELINE WHEN OPERATOR EMPLOYEES SMELLED AN ODOR COMING FROM THE ANAMOLY PIE. THE PIPELINE WAS TAKEN OUT OF SERVICE AND AN INVESTIGATION WAS INITIATED . THE RESULTS OF THE LEAK INVESTIGATION SHOWED A DENT ON THE PIPE DUE TO A ROCK UNDERNEATH THE PIPE. THE ROCK UNDERNEATH THE PIPE WAS THE CAUSE OF A SMALL CRACK WHERE THE LEAK INITIATED. THE PIPE ANAMOLY SEGMENT WAS CUTOUT AND REPLACED WITH NEW PIPE.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE — PREVIOUS MECHANICAL DAMAGE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $300,467 reported total cost, $159,941.965 in 1984 dollars, $388,250.198 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.