{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20150144","title":"SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE, INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-11-16","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2015-12-07","effective_on":"2015-11-16","summary":"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. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-759af5adace1395637941159.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-759af5adace1395637941159.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-759af5adace1395637941159","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 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.\n\nReport number: 20150144.\n\nOperator ID: 31711.\n\nReported incident date: 11/16/2015 1:50.\n\nLocation detail: 110/0+75\n\nCause detail: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE\n\nCause 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.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE — OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $385,014 reported total cost, $197,835.904 in 1984 dollars, $474,598.085 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":1814}