# CHEMOIL REFINING — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2000-10-27

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20000129
- **title:** CHEMOIL REFINING — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2000-10-27
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2000-11-02
- **effective on:** 2000-10-27
- **summary:** Hazardous liquid incident in LONG BEACH, CA. Reported cause: OTHER. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 300 FUEL OIL released, $80,000 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.
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Hazardous liquid incident in LONG BEACH, CA. Reported cause: OTHER. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 300 FUEL OIL released, $80,000 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: 20000129.

Operator ID: 879.

Reported incident date: 20001027.

Location detail: VALVE BOX NEAR SEPULVEDA BLVD - SEE MAP ENCLOSED

Cause detail: FLANGE GASKET FAILED

Cause detail: FLANGE GASKET FAILED, FILLING VALVE BOX AND SPILLING ONTO SEPULVEDA BLVD.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — MISCELLANEOUS.

PHMSA indexed costs: $80,000 reported total cost, $54,062.099 in 1984 dollars, $133,138.312 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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