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PHMSA Report 20030048
EL PASO FIELD SERVICES — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2003-04-16
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in ESCOBAS, ZAPATA County, TX. Reported cause: 9. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $91,500 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: 20030048.
Operator ID: 30950.
Reported incident date: 4/16/2003.
Cause detail: THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE
Cause detail: A 2" TAP VALVE CONNECTED TO EL PASO FIELD SERVICES 20" LINE WAS STRUCK BY A CONTRACTOR CONSTRUCTING A FOREIGN LINE CROSSING.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.
PHMSA indexed costs: $91,500 reported total cost, $61,573.761 in 1984 dollars, $79,931.829 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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