PHMSA Report 20150238
PHMSA Report 20150238
Hazardous liquid incident in DIBOLL, ANGELINA County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 60 CRUDE OIL released, $5,000 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: 20150238.
Operator ID: 18718.
Reported incident date: 5/31/2015 13:29.
Location detail: 0+00
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: ON 5/31/2015 THE CONTROL CENTER NOTIFIED FIELD OPERATIONS PERSONNEL THAT THEY WERE UNABLE TO START THE TRUCK INJECTION PUMP DUE TO AN LEL ALARM ON THE TRUCK ACT. LOCAL OPERATIONS PERSONNEL WERE DISPATCHED TO THE LOCATION AND CONFIRMED A RELEASE OF CRUDE OIL IN THE STATION MANIFOLD AREA. INVESTIGATION REVEALED A PINHOLE IN A SECTION OF DEADLEG STATION PIPING. THE DEADLEG WAS REMOVED FROM THE SYSTEM AND A REVIEW OF THE STATION PIPING FOR ANY ADDITIONAL DEADLEG PIPING WAS CONDUCTED. SUBSEQUENT TO THE REVIEW OF DIBOLL STATION, ALL DEADLEG PIPING WITHIN THE STATION HAS BEEN REMOVED.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $127,056 reported total cost, $63,739.78 in 1984 dollars, $156,971.462 in current-year dollars.
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