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PHMSA Report 20030036
COLORADO INTERSTATE GAS CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2003-03-23
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in GREELEY, WELD County, CO. Reported cause: 18. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $850,000 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: 20030036.
Operator ID: 2564.
Reported incident date: 3/23/2003.
Cause detail: FILLET WELD
Cause detail: THE 24" 5B PIPELINE, NEAR GREELEY, CO RUPTURED. ESCAPING GAS WAS IGNITED AND CONTINUED TO BURN UNTIL THE PIPELINE SEGMENTS ON BOTH 5A AND 5B WERE ISOLATED AND THE RESIDUAL GAS WAS EXHAUSTED. A COMPANY OWNED METER STATION WAS DESTROYED. APPARENTLY, A 4-IN BRANCH LINE FAILED AT A SADDLE CONNECTION.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — FILLET WELD.
PHMSA indexed costs: $850,000 reported total cost, $554,996.132 in 1984 dollars, $1,074,960.388 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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