ENABLE GAS TRANSMISSION, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-10-01

Gas transmission and gathering incident in HYDRO, CADDO County, OK. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 12449 NATURAL GAS released, $59,000 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: 20130094.

Operator ID: 602.

Reported incident date: 10/1/2013 16:53.

Location detail: 2133+41

Cause detail: EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY THIRD PARTY

Cause detail: MISCELLANEOUS ROOT CAUSES

Cause detail: ROOT CAUSE NOT LISTED (COMMENT REQUIRED)

Cause detail: FARMER'S CONTRACTOR WAS LEVELING LAND. NO ONE-CALL WAS MADE BY THE FARMER OR CONTRACTOR. COMPANY EMPLOYEES DISCOVERED THE EXCAVATION IN PROGRESS. COMPANY EMPLOYEES SHUT DOWN THE WORK AND EXPLAINED THAT A PIPELINE WAS IN THE DIRECT VICINITY OF THE WORK. COMPANY EMPLOYEES EXPLAINED THAT THE ONE-CALL CENTER MUST BE NOTIFIED. THE EQUIPMENT OPERATOR SAID HE WAS DONE FOR THE DAY AND WOULD MAKE THE REQUIRED ONE-CALL NOTIFICATION PRIOR TO CONTINUING THE WORK. COMPANY EMPLOYEES LEFT THE LOCATION AND WHERE LATER NOTIFIED OF THE HIT/BLOWING LINE.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $152,625 reported total cost, $106,007.181 in 1984 dollars, $168,482.963 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.