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PHMSA Report 20040036
EL PASO FIELD SERVICES — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2004-03-13
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in RACHEL, BROOKS County, TX. Reported cause: 15. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $47,303 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: 20040036.
Operator ID: 30950.
Reported incident date: 3/13/2004.
Cause detail: COMPONENT
Cause detail: 2' BLOW DOWN VALVE BLEW OFF FLANGE DUE TO CONNECTION FAILURE. FLANGE WAS THREADED AND PLUGGED. LINE WAS RETURNED TO SERVICE.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — JOINT/FITTING/COMPONENT.
PHMSA indexed costs: $47,303 reported total cost, $28,153.572 in 1984 dollars, $36,104.791 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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