MARATHON PIPE LINE CO — Hazardous liquid — incident on 1986-03-03

Hazardous liquid incident in ZIONSVILLE, BOONE County, IN. Reported cause: CORROSION. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 75 GASOLINE released, $10,000 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: 19860042.

Operator ID: 12127.

Reported incident date: 19860303.

Location detail: NEAR A HOUSING SUBDIVISION OF ZIONSVILLE, INDIANA, 1089 STANLEY ST., SECTION 26 TOWNSHIP 18 NORTH RANGE 2 EAST.

Cause detail: CORROSION, EXTERNAL

Cause detail: AT 2030 HOURS CST, MARATHON PIPE LINE CO., RECEIVED A CALL FROM A LANDOWNER ALONG THE RIGHT-0F-WAY ON MARATHON'S #2-10" PRODUCTS LINE. THELANDOWNER STATED HE SMELLED GASOLINE IN THE AREA. MPL PERSONNEL IMMEDIATELY PROCEEDED TO THE SITE WHERE THEY VERIFIED THAT THE SMELL WAS DUE TO A PIPELINE LEAK. AT 2047 HOURS, MARATHON'S CONTROL CENTER WAS NOTIFIED AND THE LINE WAS SHUT IN. ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL WERE DISPATCHED FROM MARTINSVILLE AND INDIANAPOLIS TO SECURE THE AREA THE EVENING OF MARCH 3.ON MARCH 4, MARATHON PERSONNEL EXCAVATED THE LINE, DISCOVERED A PINHOLE CORROSION LEAK, CLAMPED THE LEAK AND BEGAN RECOVERY OPERATIONS. THE LINE WAS REPAIRED ON MARCH 5 WITH A FULL ENCIRCLEMENT SLEEVE AND THE RECOVERY OPERATION WAS COMPLETED.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $10,000 reported total cost, $9,462.81 in 1984 dollars, $23,303.989 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.