{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20180025","title":"BOARDWALK STORAGE COMPANY, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2018-01-20","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2018-02-09","effective_on":"2018-01-20","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in PLAQUEMINE, IBERVILLE County, LA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 104 NATURAL GAS released, $1,056,806 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-81cc08959c8ff5a58479c289.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-81cc08959c8ff5a58479c289.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-81cc08959c8ff5a58479c289","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 PLAQUEMINE, IBERVILLE County, LA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 104 NATURAL GAS released, $1,056,806 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: 20180025.\n\nOperator ID: 39210.\n\nReported incident date: 1/20/2018 12:59.\n\nLocation detail: 804-0+00\n\nCause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT\n\nCause detail: BOARDWALK STORAGE COMPANY'S CHOCTAW COMPRESSOR NO. 1 EXPERIENCED A FAILURE. SCADA INDICATED A FUSIBLE LOOP FIRE DETECTION SHUTDOWN AND ESD. THE ROOT CAUSE WAS DETERMINED TO BE DEFECTIVE PLC COMMUNICATIONS. THE COMMUNICATION NETWORK MISTAKENLY SIGNALED FOR THE LUBE OIL PUMPS AND AIR COMPRESSORS TO SHUTDOWN. IT IS ALSO BELIEVED THE SUCTION VALVE WAS COMMANDED TO CLOSE BUT THIS CANNOT BE VERIFIED. THE COMMAND TO SHUTDOWN THE MOTOR WAS NEVER RECEIVED BY THE MOTOR SWITCHGEAR. THE RESULT WAS THE LOSS OF LUBE OIL AND THE MOTOR CONTINUED TO RUN. 8-31-18 UPDATED COSTS.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $1,057,296 reported total cost, $505,191.047 in 1984 dollars, $1,243,795.668 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":1597}