{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20190002","title":"ATMOS ENERGY CORPORATION - MID-TEX — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2018-12-10","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2019-01-09","effective_on":"2018-12-10","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in RENO, PARKER County, TX. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 25 NATURAL GAS released, $75,000 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. PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-678944155bbb37366b3f96b5.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-678944155bbb37366b3f96b5.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-678944155bbb37366b3f96b5","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip","body":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in RENO, PARKER County, TX. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 25 NATURAL GAS released, $75,000 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.\n\nReport number: 20190002.\n\nOperator ID: 31348.\n\nReported incident date: 12/10/2018 19:00.\n\nLocation detail: 916+16\n\nCause detail: EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY THIRD PARTY\n\nCause detail: LOCATING ISSUE\n\nCause detail: FACILITY NOT MARKED DUE TO LOCATOR ERROR\n\nCause detail: ADDITIONAL NRC REPORT # 1232875 ON DECEMBER 10, 2018 AT 19:00, A THIRD PARTY CONTRACTOR HIT ATMOS ENERGY'S LINE CA, PUNCTURING THE LINE AND CAUSING A LEAK. THE LINE SEGMENT WAS ISOLATED AT 06:30 ON DECEMBER 11, 2018, AND A CONTROLLED GAS RELEASE WAS PERFORMED UNTIL LINE PRESSURE WAS ELIMINATED. AT THAT POINT, A TEN FOOT PIPE SEGMENT WAS REMOVED BY ATMOS ENERGY, AND APPROPRIATE REPAIRS WERE MADE. CNG RESOURCES WERE UTILIZED TO HOLD UP A SMALL RESIDENTIAL AREA AND SEVEN FARM TAP CUSTOMERS ON THE SEGMENT WERE OUT OF SERVICE DURING THE SHUTDOWN. SERVICE WAS RESTORED AT 20:30 ON DECEMBER 11, 2018. AFTER INVESTIGATION OF THE INCIDENT, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT CONTRACT LOCATOR DID NOT APPROPRIATELY MARK THE LINE.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $89,278 reported total cost, $43,829.839 in 1984 dollars, $104,949.402 in current-year dollars.\n\nPHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings.","truncated":false,"body_characters":1788}