GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-05-21

Gas transmission and gathering incident in WINNSBORO, FRANKLIN County, LA. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 428 NATURAL GAS released, $7,500 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: 20160047.

Operator ID: 31728.

Reported incident date: 5/21/2016 23:00.

Location detail: 14.52

Cause detail: DAMAGE BY CAR, TRUCK, OR OTHER MOTORIZED VEHICLE/EQUIPMENT NOT ENGAGED IN EXCAVATION

Cause detail: A VEHICLE VEERED OFF THE ROAD AND HIT GULF SOUTH'S WINNSBORO TOWN BORDER METER STATION FACILITY. THE VEHICLE WENT THROUGH FENCING AND SHEERED OFF A 1" PIPE RISER. NO FIRE OCCURRED. BECAUSE 24 PEOPLE WERE EVACUATED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND 2 INDIVIDUALS, AS GULF SOUTH UNDERSTANDS, WERE TAKEN TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AND THEN RELEASED, GULF SOUTH CONSIDERS THIS A SIGNIFICANT EVENT AND ELECTED TO SUBMIT AN INCIDENT REPORT PER 49 CFR 191.5(A)(3). 8-19-16 REVISED TO CORRECT LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE — VEHICLE NOT ENGAGED IN EXCAVATION.

PHMSA indexed costs: $9,873 reported total cost, $5,407.37 in 1984 dollars, $12,168.931 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.