NEW YORK STATE ELECTRIC & GAS CORP — Gas distribution — incident on 2011-01-26

Gas distribution incident in HORSEHEADS, CHEMUNG County, NY. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 1 fatalities, 2 injuries, 3 NATURAL GAS released, $500 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: 20110032.

Operator ID: 13420.

Reported incident date: 1/26/2011 9:18.

Location detail: 198 JOSEPH STREET

Cause detail: EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY THIRD PARTY

Cause detail: EXCAVATION ISSUE

Cause detail: IMPROPER BACKFILLING PRACTICES

Cause detail: THE COMPANY RECEIVED A REPORT OF A HOUSE EXPLOSION AND RESPONDED TO ASSIST THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT. THE INCIDENT WAS ATTRIBUTED TO THIRD PARTY DAMAGE TO THE SERVICE LINE PIPING.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, serious incident, not fire-first.

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

PHMSA indexed costs: $225,600 reported total cost, $121,018.072 in 1984 dollars, $297,943.63 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.