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PHMSA Report 20140025
TEXAS GAS TRANSMISSION, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-02-12
Current as of 2014-02-12 Government source
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in PINEVILLE, RAPIDES County, LA. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 45600 NATURAL GAS released, $0 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: 20140025.
Operator ID: 19270.
Reported incident date: 2/12/2014 12:10.
Location detail: 122.5044
Cause detail: TEMPERATURE
Cause detail: FREEZING RAIN CONDITIONS CAUSED ICING ON THE POPPET BLOCK CAUSING THE VALVE TO OPEN. CORRECTED CAUSE SINCE DEVICE WAS A VALVE AND NOT A RELIEF VALVE. 2-28-14 CORRECTED CAUSE AS SUGGESTED BY PHMSA. 6-24-14
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE — TEMPERATURE.
PHMSA indexed costs: $254,536 reported total cost, $175,895.719 in 1984 dollars, $216,599.807 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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