KINDER MORGAN LIQUID TERMINALS, LLC — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2017-05-08

Hazardous liquid incident in GALENA PARK, HARRIS County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3 REFINED AND/OR PETROLEUM PRODUCT (NON-HVL) WHICH IS A LIQUID AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $194,850 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: 20170183.

Operator ID: 26041.

Reported incident date: 5/8/2017 16:00.

Location detail: 0

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: PRODUCT WAS FOUND ON TOP OF INTERNAL PONTOON ROOF ON TANK 12-30. PRODUCT WAS REMOVED AND TANK WAS EMPTIED TO DETERMINE CAUSE. TANK HAS BEEN CLEANED, AND INITIAL INSPECTION DETERMINED THAT THE LEAK CAME FROM CRACKS IN THE WELD. UPON FURTHER INVESTIGATION, WE DETERMINED THE CAUSE TO BE GENERAL INTERNAL CORROSION RELATED TO THE TRANSMIX PRODUCT. THE INTERNAL FLOATING ROOF WAS REPLACED. TO PREVENT THE RE-OCCURRENCE, WE HAVE COATED THE UNDERSIDE OF THE ROOF PER NACE GUIDELINES.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $196,000 reported total cost, $95,808.074 in 1984 dollars, $235,945.8 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.