# TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-09-21

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20130092
- **title:** TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-09-21
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2013-10-17
- **effective on:** 2013-09-21
- **summary:** Gas transmission and gathering incident in KINDER, JEFF DAVIS County, LA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 13000 NATURAL GAS released, $500 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: not significant, not serious.
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in KINDER, JEFF DAVIS County, LA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 13000 NATURAL GAS released, $500 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: 20130092.

Operator ID: 19160.

Reported incident date: 9/21/2013 16:51.

Location detail: 823-1

Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT

Cause detail: RELIEF VALVE OPENED PREMATURELY VENTING NATURAL GAS. DID NOT EXCEED MAOP. FOLLOW UP ACTIONS ON THE RELIEF VALVE: 1. INSPECTED AND CLEANED SNAP ACTING PILOT CONTROL VALVE ( SEAT AND VALVE). 2. SNAP ACTING PILOT CONTROL VALVE TOTALLY REBUILT. 3. REPLACED PILOT RANGE SPRING WITH NEW RELEASE SET POINT (601-1001 PSI) TO OPERATE EFFICIENTLY AT PRESSURES IN THIS RANGE. 4. INSPECTED AND CLEAN RELIEF VALVE BODY.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.

PHMSA indexed costs: $52,500 reported total cost, $42,348.781 in 1984 dollars, $52,317.223 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.
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