# CHEVRON PIPELINE CO — Hazardous liquid — incident on 1991-01-17

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 19910038
- **title:** CHEVRON PIPELINE CO — Hazardous liquid — incident on 1991-01-17
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 1991-02-14
- **effective on:** 1991-01-17
- **summary:** Hazardous liquid incident in PINOLE, CONTRA COSTA County, CA. Reported cause: OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 500 CRUDE OIL released, $0 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: significant incident, not serious.
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Hazardous liquid incident in PINOLE, CONTRA COSTA County, CA. Reported cause: OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 500 CRUDE OIL released, $0 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: 19910038.

Operator ID: 2731.

Reported incident date: 19910117.

Location detail: 890 SAN PABLO BLVD., PINOLE CA.

Cause detail: DAMAGE BY OTHERS

Cause detail: AN OPERATOR ON A 977 CAT LOADER HIT THE PIPELINE WHILE CLEANING TRASH AND CUTTING TOE OF SLOPE WHERE PIPELINES ARE BURIES IN A HILLSIDE. CRUDE OIL SPRAYED FROM PIPELINE & SPRAY WAS BLOWN BY WIND IN A NORTHERN DIRECTION.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

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

PHMSA indexed costs: $0 reported total cost, $0 in 1984 dollars, $0 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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