{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20150098","title":"SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-03-02","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2015-03-19","effective_on":"2015-03-02","summary":"Hazardous liquid incident in SHARON HILL, DELAWARE County, PA. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 297 CRUDE OIL released, $8,000 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-4aca654a9da4acc153ea93aa.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-4aca654a9da4acc153ea93aa.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-4aca654a9da4acc153ea93aa","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/1d547e17-2be1-4a32-9958-a1d5a946ade9?download=true&filename=Hazardous%20Liquid%20Accident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip","body":"Hazardous liquid incident in SHARON HILL, DELAWARE County, PA. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 297 CRUDE OIL released, $8,000 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: 20150098.\n\nOperator ID: 18718.\n\nReported incident date: 3/2/2015 11:00.\n\nLocation detail: NSL P3 DISCHA\n\nCause detail: TEMPERATURE\n\nCause detail: OPERATOR DETECTED THE CRUDE OIL LEAK INTO CONTAINMENT AREA WHEN GOING TO PERFORM A VALVE CHANGE RELATED TO ANOTHER PRODUCT MOVEMENT. ACTIONS WERE TAKEN TO SHUT DOWN P3 AND START UP P6. THERE WAS NO INTERRUPTION OF FLOW TO THE PES REFINERY UNIT. SUPERVISOR INITIATED EMERGENCY RESPONSE. OSRO'S WERE ACTIVATED FOR CLEAN-UP. THE CRUDE OIL LEAKED INTO A CONCRETE CONTAINMENT AREA AT THE MANIFOLD OUTSIDE THE PUMP ROOM. ALL CRUDE OIL WAS RECOVERED. THE LEAK SOURCE WAS IDENTIFIED AS A CRACK OBSERVED ON A VALVE BODY. THE VALVE WAS SENT FOR ANALYSIS. THE ANALYSIS DETERMINED THAT FREEZING WATER CAUSED THE VALVE BODY TO CRACK.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE — TEMPERATURE.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $41,100 reported total cost, $20,618.507 in 1984 dollars, $50,777.036 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":1578}