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PHMSA Report 20140106
ANR PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-09-16
Current as of 2014-09-16 Government source
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in BENTON HARBOR, BERRIEN County, MI. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 99800 NATURAL GAS released, $4,280,000 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: 20140106.
Operator ID: 405.
Reported incident date: 9/16/2014 1:59.
Location detail: MP 933.6
Cause detail: ENVIRONMENTAL CRACKING-RELATED
Cause detail: ON SEPTEMBER 16, 2014, ANR PIPELINE COMPANY EXPERIENCED A PIPELINE BREAK AT APPROXIMATE MILEPOST 933.6 ON THE 22-INCH 100 LINE NEAR BENTON HARBOR, BERRIEN COUNTY, MICHIGAN. THE PIPELINE BREAK HAS BEEN REPAIRED AND RETURNED TO SERVICE PER PHMSA APPROVAL ON DECEMBER 13, 2014.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — ENVIRONMENTAL CRACKING-RELATED.
PHMSA indexed costs: $4,815,000 reported total cost, $2,525,254.276 in 1984 dollars, $5,838,793.225 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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