PETROLEUM FUEL AND TERMINAL COMPANY — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-04-29

Hazardous liquid incident in BALTIMORE, Not Within a County or Parish County, MD. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.24 REFINED AND/OR PETROLEUM PRODUCT (NON-HVL) WHICH IS A LIQUID AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $136,851 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: 20150225.

Operator ID: 99043.

Reported incident date: 4/29/2015 11:00.

Location detail: #1 N TANKFARM

Cause detail: DESIGN-, CONSTRUCTION-, INSTALLATION-, OR FABRICATION-RELATED

Cause detail: AT 11:00 ON 4/29/2015, TERMINAL MANAGER IDENTIFIED AN AREA OF SATURATED SOIL NEXT TO TANK #104 THAT APPEARED ABOUT 2' IN DISTANCE FROM THE TANK BOTTOM AND WAS 8-10' IN LENGTH. THE SOIL SMELLED OF GASOLINE AND TANK BOTTOM WATER. UNINTENTIONAL RELEASE OF PRODUCT ESTIMATED AT 5-10 GALS. TERMINAL MANAGER IMMEDIATELY CALLED TERMINAL PERSONNEL FOR ASSISTANCE TO EMPTY TANK AND REMOVE CONTAMINATED SOIL. AT 11:50, TANK STRIPPING BEGAN AND WAS COMPLETED AT 07:45 ON 4/30/15. CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS REMOVED BY FACILITY PERSONNEL AND PLACED INTO A 55 GALLON DRUM FOR DISPOSAL. IN THE MEANTIME, NOTIFICATIONS WERE COMPLETED TO NRC, MDE AND MARYLAND PSC BY 12:30. THE TANK WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1963. IN 2006 A NEW TANK FLOOR WAS INSTALLED. PRIOR TO THIS INCIDENT, THE MOST RECENT OUT-OF-SERVICE API 653 INSPECTION WAS PERFORMED IN 2006 IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE INSTALLATION OF NEW FLOOR. AS A DIRECT RESULT OF THIS INCIDENT AND SUBSEQUENT REPAIRS, AN API 653 OUT-OF-SERVICE INSPECTION WAS COMPLETED ON 5/22/15.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION OR FABRICATION-RELATED.

PHMSA indexed costs: $137,575 reported total cost, $69,016.814 in 1984 dollars, $169,967.171 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.