{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20190061","title":"ATMOS ENERGY CORPORATION - MID-TEX — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2019-04-22","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2019-05-22","effective_on":"2019-04-22","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in DECATUR, WISE County, TX. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 62.4 NATURAL GAS released, $165,000 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: significant incident, not serious.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-36328130392e574399440e5e.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-36328130392e574399440e5e.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-36328130392e574399440e5e","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip","body":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in DECATUR, WISE County, TX. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 62.4 NATURAL GAS released, $165,000 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.\n\nReport number: 20190061.\n\nOperator ID: 31348.\n\nReported incident date: 4/22/2019 14:36.\n\nLocation detail: 16972\n\nCause detail: EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY THIRD PARTY\n\nCause detail: LOCATING ISSUE\n\nCause detail: FACILITY NOT MARKED DUE TO LOCATOR ERROR\n\nCause detail: ADDITIONAL NRC REPORT NUMBER 1243764 ON APRIL 22, 2019 AT 14:36, A THIRD-PARTY CONTRACTOR HIT ATMOS ENERGY'S LINE W 12-1 WHILE DRILLING TO INSTALL A BILLBOARD POLE, PUNCTURING THE LINE AND CAUSING A LEAK. THE LINE SEGMENT WAS ISOLATED AT 19:50 AND A CONTROLLED GAS RELEASE WAS PERFORMED UNTIL THE PRESSURE WAS ELIMINATED. CNG RESOURCES WERE UTILIZED TO SERVE 5 CUSTOMERS DURING THE SHUTDOWN. ON APRIL 23, 2019 AT 19:02, THE DAMAGED SECTION OF PIPE WAS REMOVED AND REPAIRS COMMENCED. SERVICE WAS RESTORED AT 18:50 ON APRIL 24, 2019. AFTER INVESTIGATION OF THE INCIDENT, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE CONTRACT LOCATOR DID NOT APPROPRIATELY MARK THE LINE.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $349,112 reported total cost, $163,825.074 in 1984 dollars, $402,892.563 in current-year dollars.\n\nPHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings.","truncated":false,"body_characters":1733}