# COLUMBIA GAS OF OHIO INC — Gas distribution — incident on 1988-10-10

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 19880260
- **title:** COLUMBIA GAS OF OHIO INC — Gas distribution — incident on 1988-10-10
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 1988-10-10
- **effective on:** 1988-10-10
- **summary:** Gas distribution incident in GREENWICH, HURON County, OH. Reported cause: OTHER. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 1 injuries, $90,000 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, serious incident.
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Gas distribution incident in GREENWICH, HURON County, OH. Reported cause: OTHER. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 1 injuries, $90,000 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: 19880260.

Operator ID: 2596.

Reported incident date: 19881010.

Cause detail: EXPLOSION AND FIRE OCCURRED AT THIS ADDRESS. OCCUPANTS REPORTEDLY HAD SMELLED GAS. THE SON INVESTIGATED ODOR ABOUT 5:00 PM. AND THE FATHER ABOUT 7:00 PM. WHEN THE FATHER, RETURNING FROM THE BASEMENT, TURNED LIGHT OUT, THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED. INVESTIGATION REVEALED THE CUSTOMER OWNED SERICE LINE WOULD NOT WITHSTANDA PRESSURE TEST. FURTHER EXCAVATION REVEALED 1 1/4" PIPE CRACKED IN THE THREADS AT AN ELL IN THE GROUND UNDER THE ADD-ON DINING ROOM AND UPSTREAM OF THE METER.IT HAS NOT BEEN DETERMINED WHETHER THE CRACKED THREADS WERE THE CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION OR WERE AS A RESULT OF IT.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, serious incident.

PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — MISCELLANEOUS.

PHMSA indexed costs: $90,000 reported total cost, $80,699.694 in 1984 dollars, $198,738.509 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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