{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20140059","title":"SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE, INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-05-03","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2014-05-29","effective_on":"2014-05-03","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in PETROLIA, ALLEN County, KS. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 17115 NATURAL GAS released, $119,000 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-383a4f833376458c0789185a.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-383a4f833376458c0789185a.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-383a4f833376458c0789185a","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 PETROLIA, ALLEN County, KS. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 17115 NATURAL GAS released, $119,000 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: 20140059.\n\nOperator ID: 31711.\n\nReported incident date: 5/3/2014 11:38.\n\nCause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT\n\nCause detail: GAS CONTROL RECEIVED FIRST ALARM AT 11:38 ON 5/3/2014 SHOWING PRESSURE DROPPED 17 PSI IN 1.5 MINUTES AND THEN BEGAN TO SLOWLY CLIMB. A SECOND ALARM CAME IN AT 12:00 THAT SHOWED PRESSURE WAS RAPIDLY DROPPING. A THIRD ALARM CAM IN AT 12:06 WITH PRESSURES TRENDING AT 30 PSI BELOW NORMAL. GAS CONTROL CONTACTED THE MEASUREMENT TECHNICIAN AT 12:15 AND WAS NOTIFIED OF AN ETA OF 90 MINUTES. ON CALL PERSONEL WERE NOTIFIED AT 12:39 WHO IMMEDIATELY CALLED THE CLOSEST OPERATOR. PSAP AND ALLEN COUNTY SHERIFF WERE NOTIFIED AT 12:42. OPERATIONS WERE ON SCENE AT 13:12 AND NOTIFIED GAS CONTROL OF THE RELIEF VALVE BLOWING. THE RELIEF WAS SHUT-IN AND MONITORED AT THIS TIME UNTIL MEASUREMENT COULD ARRIVE TO SERVICE THE RELIEF VALVE. THE RELIEF VALVE WAS REPLACED AND BACK IN SERVICE BY 22:46 ON 5/3/2014.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $195,504 reported total cost, $113,305.838 in 1984 dollars, $213,685.649 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":1787}