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PHMSA Report 20180059
EAST TENNESSEE NATURAL GAS, LLC (SPECTRA ENERGY PARTNERS, LP) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2018-05-21
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, GRUNDY County, TN. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3 NATURAL GAS released, $251,000 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: 20180059.
Operator ID: 4070.
Reported incident date: 5/21/2018 16:15.
Location detail: 35.56
Cause detail: EXTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: A NATURAL GAS PIN HOLE LEAK WAS DISCOVERED DURING A CORROSION ANOMALY INVESTIGATION ON THE EAST TENNESSEE NATURAL GAS 12-INCH LINE 3200-1 AT MILE POST 35.56 NEAR TRACY CITY, TENNESSEE AT 4:15 PM, MAY 21, 2018. THE CAUSE OF THE PIN HOLE WAS EXTERNAL CORROSION. THE PIPE REPLACEMENT WAS COMPLETED JULY 20, 2018.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $256,052 reported total cost, $124,617.552 in 1984 dollars, $301,069.192 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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