AMOCO PIPELINE CO — Hazardous liquid — incident on 1999-09-11

Hazardous liquid incident in CADDO County, OK. Reported cause: OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 75 CRUDE OIL released, $40,000 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: 19990151.

Operator ID: 443.

Reported incident date: 19990911.

Location detail: FROM ALBERT, OK; SOUTH OF HWY 146 7/10 MILE THEN WEST OF HIGHWAY 1/2 MILE IN MIDDLE OF FIELD

Cause detail: DAMAGE BY OTHERS

Cause detail: LANDOWNER HIRED A CONTRACTOR TO CLEAR A WATERWAY (DITCH) IN HIS FIELD. CONTRACTOR USED A BULLDOZER FOR THE JOB. AS THE BULLDOZER DROVE ON THE BACK OF THE DITCH, A CLEAT ON THE TRACK HIT THE PIPELINE, LOCATED IN THE BOTTOM OF THE DITCH, CAUSING DAMAGE AND THE LEAK. AMOCO PIPELINE DID NOT RECEIVE A NOTIFICATION FROM THE OKIE ONE-CALL SYSTEM REGARDING THIS WORK. AN AMOCO PIPELINE COMPANY RIGHT OR WAY MARKER IS AT THIS LOCATION AND WAS IN PLAIN SIGHT OF DOZER OPERATOR.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $40,000 reported total cost, $27,593.975 in 1984 dollars, $67,955.468 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.