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PHMSA Report 20240038
SCM OPERATIONS, LLC — Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only — incident on 2024-04-25
Current as of 2024-04-25 Government source
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Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in BARSTOW, WARD County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2.91 CRUDE OIL released, $20 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: 20240038.
Operator ID: 40204.
Reported incident date: 4/25/2024 8:15.
Cause detail: NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE
Cause detail: AT 8:15 AM ON 04/25/2024, AN SCM OPERATIONS TECHNICIAN IDENTIFIED A LEAK COMING FROM A 10" CLOSURE ON THE ABOVE GROUND PIG RECEIVER. THE CAUSE OF THE LEAK WAS IDENTIFIED TO BE A DAMAGED O-RING ON THE CLOSURE. TO REPAIR THE CONNECTION, THE O-RING WAS REPLACED, AND THE CLOSURE WAS PROPERLY SHUT PER MANUFACTURER SPECIFICATIONS. THE CORRECTIVE ACTION TAKEN TO PREVENT RECURRENCE IS TO ADD AN O-RING INSPECTION TO THE MAINTENANCE WORK ORDERS FOR EACH PIG RUN.
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