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PHMSA Report 20140107
LOUISVILLE GAS & ELECTRIC CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-09-17
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in PROSPECT, OLDHAM COUNTY County, KY. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 1 injuries, 7000 NATURAL GAS released, $262,000 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: 20140107.
Operator ID: 11824.
Reported incident date: 9/17/2014 16:51.
Location detail: 69,872
Cause detail: NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE
Cause detail: THE PIPELINE WAS EXCAVATED SO MODIFICATIONS COULD BE MADE TO ALLOW PASSAGE OF IN LINE INSPECTION TOOLS. WITHIN THE EXCAVATION, A MECHANICAL COUPLING WAS EXPOSED. SHORTLY THEREAFTER, THE PIPELINE SEPARATED FROM THE MECHANICAL COUPLING, WHICH RESULTED IN A RELEASE OF GAS. NO IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OCCURRED. REPAIRS WERE MADE PROMPTLY AND THE PIPELINE WAS RETURNED TO SERVICE ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2014.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, serious incident.
PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE.
PHMSA indexed costs: $1,354,709 reported total cost, $693,065.109 in 1984 dollars, $1,680,573.615 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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