{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20150042","title":"ALASKA PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-02-03","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2015-04-01","effective_on":"2015-02-03","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH County, AK. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1300 NATURAL GAS released, $60,000 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: not significant, not serious.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-4f86eb607518e6c6e39f6dc1.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-4f86eb607518e6c6e39f6dc1.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-4f86eb607518e6c6e39f6dc1","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip","body":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH County, AK. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1300 NATURAL GAS released, $60,000 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: 20150042.\n\nOperator ID: 207.\n\nReported incident date: 2/3/2015 16:09.\n\nLocation detail: MP46\n\nCause detail: DESIGN-, CONSTRUCTION-, INSTALLATION-, OR FABRICATION-RELATED\n\nCause detail: A PINHOLE LEAK WAS FOUND IN A GIRTH WELD DURING A ROUTING ANNUAL LEAK SURVEY. THE GAS LEAKAGE WAS MINIMAL. THE PIPELINE REMAINED IN SERVICE DURING A COLD SPELL, AND THEN IMMEDIATELY TAKEN OUT OF SERVICE. AFTER THE SECTION WAS REPLACED, IT WAS FOUND THAT THE WELD HAD AN INCOMPLETE ROOT PASS AND HAD A LESS THAN 3\", HAIRLINE FRACTURE UNDERNEATH THE PINHOLE.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION OR FABRICATION-RELATED.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $68,300 reported total cost, $35,668.203 in 1984 dollars, $84,061.357 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":1457}