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PHMSA Report 20150091
TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS PIPE LINE COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-06-09
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in BENTON, LYCOMING COUNTY County, PA. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 96379 NATURAL GAS released, $420,000 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: 20150091.
Operator ID: 19570.
Reported incident date: 6/9/2015 21:30.
Location detail: MP 118.6
Cause detail: ENVIRONMENTAL CRACKING-RELATED
Cause detail: ON JUNE 9,2015 LEIDY B LINE RUPTURED BETWEEN MLV517LB0 AND MLV517LB10. AT APPROXIMATELY 9:30 GAS CONTROL RECIEVED A LOW LOW PRESSURE ALARM AND NOTIFIED LOCAL PERSONNEL. THE MAINLINE BLOCK VALVES WERE CLOSED TO ISOLATE THE SEGMENT. EMERGENCY RESPONDERS AND WILLIAMS PERSONNELL ISOLATED THE INCIDENT SITE AND NOTIFIED THE NRC.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — ENVIRONMENTAL CRACKING-RELATED.
PHMSA indexed costs: $751,154 reported total cost, $513,500.373 in 1984 dollars, $896,877.003 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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