SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE, INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-11-16

Gas transmission and gathering incident in WELDA, ANDERSON County, KS. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1790 NATURAL GAS released, $369,000 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: 20150144.

Operator ID: 31711.

Reported incident date: 11/16/2015 1:50.

Location detail: 110/0+75

Cause detail: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE

Cause detail: ON 11/16/2015 AT 01:50 AM THE COMMUNICATIONS TOWER AT THE SSC COMPRESSOR STATION IN WELDA, KS FELL AND STRUCK A 1" WELD-O-LET THAT WAS FEEDING A MEASUREMENT TRANSMITTER LINE. THE STRIKE CAUSED A RELEASE OF NATURAL GAS AND A LOSS OF COMMUNICATIONS TO SSC GAS CONTROL AT APPROXIMATELY 01:52 AM. SSC GAS CONTROL NOTIFIED ON-CALL OPERATIONS AT 1:53 AM AND ON-CALL COMMUNICATIONS PERSONNEL AT 1:58 AM. AT 02:25 ON-CALL COMMUNICATIONS CONFIRMED GAS CONTROL OF A LOSS OF POWER AT THE WELDA STATION COMMUNICATIONS TOWER. ON-CALL OPERATIONS ARRIVED ONSITE AT 02:36 AM. OPERATIONS CONFIRMED THERE WAS A 1" LINE THAT HAD BEEN DAMAGED FROM THE FALL OF THE COMMUNICATION TOWER CAUSING A RELEASE OF GAS. THE LINE WAS BLOWN DOWN AT ON 11/16/2015 AT 12:20 PM TO MAKE REPAIRS TO THE 1" WELD-O-LET THAT HAD BEEN DAMAGED.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE — OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $385,014 reported total cost, $197,835.904 in 1984 dollars, $474,598.085 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.