PHMSA Report 20060051 - MARATHON PIPE LINE LLC — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2006-01-13 | Regulus

Hazardous liquid incident in HOLLANDSBURG, PARKE County, IN. Reported cause: 14. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, YES GASOLINE AND DIESEL released, $195,040 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: 20060051.

Operator ID: 12127.

Reported incident date: 1/13/2006.

Cause detail: BODY OF PIPE

Cause detail: ON JANUARY 13, 2006, MARATHON PIPE LINE LLC (MPL) RECEIVED A CALL FROM A LOCAL LANDOWNER NOTING A SHEEN AND SMELL OF PRODUCT ON A CREEK IN PARKE COUNTY NEAR RACCOON LAKE, IN. MPL SHUT DOWN THE WOOD RIVER - CLERMONT 10" PRODUCTS SYSTEM TO DEPLOY EMERGENCY RESPONSE ACTIVITIES AND INVESTIGATE THE SOURCE OF THE RELEASE. DURING THE EXCAVATION NEAR THE PIPE, AN AREA OF WET PRODUCT WAS NOTED ALONG WITH A SMALL AREA OF COATING FALLING FROM THE PIPELINE. THE RELEASE WAS DEFINED AS A PINHOLE IN THE 12 O'CLOCK POSITION ON SEAMLESS PIPE. ULTRASONIC THICKNESS (UT) TESTING WAS PERFORMED ON THE AREA OF PIPELINE WHERE THE PINHOLE WAS LOCATED. A ONE- INCH DIAMETER AREA OF LAMINATION WAS IDENTIFIED WITHIN THE PIPE WALL. MPL CONDUCTED UT ON ADDITIONAL AREAS OF THE PIPELINE IN THE LOCATION OF THE RELEASE AND ALL READINGS WERE WITHIN TOLERANCE OF THE NOMINAL PIPE WALL THICKNESS AND THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF EXTERNAL CORROSION. AFTER COMPLETING THE NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING, MPL REPAIRED THE DEFECT BY INSTALLING A TYPE "B" SLEEVE ON THE PIPELINE ON JANUARY 14, 2006 AND RESTARTING THE PIPELINE ON JANUARY 15, 2006. THE ESTIMATED LEAK DURATION IS BASED ON INFORMATION BY THE THIRD PARTY WHO CALLED IN THE RELEASE ON JANUARY 13, 2006. 4/20/2010 - UPDATED FOLLOWING QA/QC DATA QUALITY REVIEW. PLOTTED COORDINATES AND NOTICED THEY WERE INACCURATE. UPDATED ACCORDINGLY. PREVIOUSLY, LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE WERE REPORTED AS 39.4532N AND 87.042410W, RESPECTIVELY.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — BODY OF PIPE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $195,040 reported total cost, $114,053.034 in 1984 dollars, $280,877.522 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.