SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-03-22

Hazardous liquid incident in CUSHING, PAYNE County, OK. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 8 CRUDE OIL released, $3,000 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: 20150154.

Operator ID: 18718.

Reported incident date: 3/22/2015 12:00.

Location detail: 0+00

Cause detail: NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE

Cause detail: ON SUNDAY, 03/22/15, A RELEASE WAS FOUND AT LITTLE TANK FARM STATION IN WHICH A SEAL FAILURE ON A SIDE ENTRY TANK MIXER ON TANK 74 CAUSED AN 8-BBL RELEASE. THERE WAS NO IMPACT TO WATER; THE RELEASE WAS CONTAINED ENTIRELY WITHIN THE FACILITY AND WITHIN THE SECONDARY CONTAINMENT OF THE TANK. THE SEAL FAILURE WAS DUE TO A BEARING FAILURE. REPLACEMENT PARTS WERE ORDERED, REPLACED AND THE MIXER WAS RETURNED TO SERVICE.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $4,000 reported total cost, $2,006.667 in 1984 dollars, $4,941.804 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.