GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-08-21

Gas transmission and gathering incident in MINDENHALL, SIMPSON County, MS. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 7238 NATURAL GAS released, $18,000 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: 20140093.

Operator ID: 31728.

Reported incident date: 8/21/2014 15:50.

Location detail: 70

Cause detail: EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY THIRD PARTY

Cause detail: NOTIFICATION ISSUE

Cause detail: NO NOTIFICATION MADE TO THE ONE-CALL CENTER/811

Cause detail: A THIRD PARTY CONTRACTOR OPERATING A BULLDOZER HIT THE PIPELINE. AREA PERSONNEL WERE DISPATCHED AND LINE WAS ISOLATED. REPAIRS WERE MADE AND LINE RETURNED TO SERVICE THE SAME DAY. NO ONE CALL NOTIFICATION WAS MADE. 9-23-14 REVISED LAT/LONG PER PHMSA REQUEST.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $61,866 reported total cost, $39,294.307 in 1984 dollars, $60,152.503 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.