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PHMSA Report 19940072
ELIZABETHTOWN GAS CO — Gas distribution — incident on 1994-02-14
Current as of 1994-02-14 Government source
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Gas distribution incident in EDISON, MIDDLESEX County, NJ. Reported cause: DAMAGE BY OUTSIDE FORCES. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $300,000 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: 19940072.
Operator ID: 4350.
Reported incident date: 19940214.
Cause detail: LEAKING GAS FROM CRACKED MAIN, APPARENTLY CAUSED BY THE WEATHER.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE — TEMPERATURE.
PHMSA indexed costs: $300,000 reported total cost, $224,637.475 in 1984 dollars, $553,212.966 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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