{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20120012","title":"DOMINION TRANSMISSION, INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-01-06","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2012-02-02","effective_on":"2012-01-06","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in LUTHERSBURG, CLEARFIELD County, PA. Reported cause: OTHER INCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 NATURAL GAS released, $55,000 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-38691f6700650f26627446af.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-38691f6700650f26627446af.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-38691f6700650f26627446af","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 LUTHERSBURG, CLEARFIELD County, PA. Reported cause: OTHER INCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 NATURAL GAS released, $55,000 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: 20120012.\n\nOperator ID: 2714.\n\nReported incident date: 1/6/2012 9:30.\n\nLocation detail: LUTHER GATE\n\nCause detail: MISCELLANEOUS\n\nCause detail: EMPLOYEE WAS READING CORROSION TEST STATION AT LN 50 GATE SITE 107 ( LUTHERSBURG GATES) -EMPLOYEE REMOVED A TS CAP NEAR GATE#107-J AND NOTICED GAS ESCAPING OUT OF THE TS PIPE. EMPLOYEE IMMEDIATELY REPORTED THE LEAK TO SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL. INVESTIGATION FOUND THAT GAS APPEARED TO BE COMING FROM THE 107-J GATE. THIS IS A 6' TEMPORARY FEED FROM LUTHER STATION TO LN-50. IT WAS ALSO DETERMINED THAT THE GAS WAS MIGRATING UNDERGROUND AND WE WERE PICKING UP READINGS BY THE PARKING LOT AND CLOSE TO THE GARAGE/WAREHOUSE BUILDING. NOTIFIED GAS CONTROL OF THE FINDINGS AND BEGAN ARRANGEMENTS TO ISOLATE THE SEGMENT OF LN 50 FROM LUTHERSBURG GATE# 107 TO BIG RUN GATE # 90. THE PRESSURE ON LN 50 WAS 890# AND WAS BLOWN TO ATMOSPHERE. AFTER EXCAVATING THE VALVE, IT WAS FOUND THAT THE LEAK WAS AT THE 6' WOL ON LN 50. LUTHERSBURG TRANSMISSION WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF LUTHERSBURG G&P EMPLOYEES REPLACED THE SECTION OF 30\" PIPE. THE PIPE WAS REPLACED WITH A STRAIGHT PIECE OF PIPE AND THE 'J' VALVE WAS REMOVED. THE 6' WAS CUT & CAPPED. THE LINE WAS PUT BACK IN SERVICE AND TURNED OVER TO GAS CONTROL AT 5:09 PM, MONDAY THE 9TH.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — MISCELLANEOUS.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $121,301 reported total cost, $84,336.143 in 1984 dollars, $139,323.555 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":2092}