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PHMSA Report 20020079
SOUTHERN NATURAL GAS CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2002-09-23
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in ANNISTON, CALHOUN County, AL. Reported cause: 15. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $27,500 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: 20020079.
Operator ID: 18516.
Reported incident date: 9/23/2002.
Cause detail: COMPONENT
Cause detail: LEAK DISCOVERED ON ANNISTON #2 METER STATION TAP LINE, MP 0.00 (OFF OF 24" NORTH MAIN LOOP LINE AT MP 380.149). UPON INVESTIGATION,IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THE 4" CHECK VALVE ON THE DOWNSTREAM SIDE OF THE TAP VALVE #2 HAD AN 8" LONG CRACK IN THE BODY OF THE VALVE.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — JOINT/FITTING/COMPONENT.
PHMSA indexed costs: $27,500 reported total cost, $22,500.133 in 1984 dollars, $37,652.526 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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