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PHMSA Report 20240067
ENERGY TRANSFER NEDERLAND TERMINAL LLC — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2024-02-19
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Hazardous liquid incident in NEDERLAND, JEFFERSON County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.5 CRUDE OIL released, $3,900 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: 20240067.
Operator ID: 39706.
Reported incident date: 2/19/2024 12:15.
Location detail: 0+00
Cause detail: NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE
Cause detail: ON 2/19/2024 AT APPROXIMATELY 12:15, A CONTRACTOR WORKING FOR THE OPERATOR DISCOVERED A LEAK ON TANK 1581. THE LEAK WAS IMMEDIATELY REPORTED TO OPERATIONS AND THE TANK WAS ISOLATED. OPERATIONS PERSONNEL RESPONDED TO THE SITE AND CONTACTED THE MAINTENANCE CREW AND CLEAN UP CONTRACTORS. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT A TANK MIXER SEAL FAILED ON THE "B" MIXER AND RELEASED CRUDE OIL. THE MAINTENANCE CREW PLACED A CATCH PAN UNDER THE MIXER TO STOP ANY FURTHER CRUDE OIL FROM BEING RELEASED TO THE GROUND. APPROXIMATELY 20 GALLONS OF CRUDE OIL WAS RELEASED. A VACUUM TRUCK RESPONDED TO COLLECT ANY FREE PRODUCT AND MEASURES WERE TAKEN TO PREVENT ANY FURTHER MIGRATION OF THE CRUDE OIL WITHIN THE TANK DIKE AREA. CONTAMINATED GRAVEL AND SOIL FROM THE AREA WERE REMOVED AND REPLACED WITH NEW FILL AND GRAVEL. THE LEVEL OF THE TANK WAS PULLED DOWN BELOW THE MIXER AND MECHANICS REPLACED THE SEAL. THE MIXER WAS ALSO EXAMINED FOR ANY INDICATIONS OF MECHANICAL ISSUES AND NONE WERE DISCOVERED. THE CAUSE OF THE TANK MIXER SEAL FAILURE WAS DETERMINED TO BE NORMAL WEAR OF THE EQUIPMENT.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE.
PHMSA indexed costs: $6,940 reported total cost, $2,874.34 in 1984 dollars, $7,078.614 in current-year dollars.
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