{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20050063","title":"COLUMBIA GAS OF PENNSYLVANIA INC — Gas distribution — incident on 2005-03-16","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2005-03-09","effective_on":"2005-03-16","summary":"Gas distribution incident in CORAOPOLIS, ALLEGHENY County, PA. Reported cause: 9. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 2 injuries, $165,440 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, serious incident, not fire-first.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-897eea89686dd9508dfb143a.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-897eea89686dd9508dfb143a.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-897eea89686dd9508dfb143a","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/ef2727e4-bb70-4544-b292-9429027a9b14?download=true&filename=Gas%20Distribution%20Incident%20Data%20-%20March%202004%20to%20December%202009.zip","body":"Gas distribution incident in CORAOPOLIS, ALLEGHENY County, PA. Reported cause: 9. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 2 injuries, $165,440 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: 20050063.\n\nOperator ID: 2600.\n\nReported incident date: 3/16/2005.\n\nCause detail: THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE\n\nCause detail: CONTRACTOR INSTALLING CABLE IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY USING A DIRECTIONAL BORE MACHINE, HIT A 50 PSIG 2\" PLASTIC NATURAL GAS MAIN CAUSING LEAKAGE. THE NATURAL GAS MIGRATED TO NEARBY RESIDENTS, 107 BERTLEY RIDGE DRIVE, WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY 50 FEET AWAY FROM THE DAMAGE LOCATION WHERE THE GAS APPARENTLY CONTACTED AN IGNITION SOURCE. SECTION 5 C (GAS LOSS) IS A PRELIMINARY ESTIMATE AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, serious incident, not fire-first.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $165,440 reported total cost, $99,828.456 in 1984 dollars, $245,599.226 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":1337}