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PHMSA Report 20020045
SOUTHERN NATURAL GAS CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2002-05-16
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in CARY, SHARKEY County, MS. Reported cause: 21. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 1 injuries, $37,351 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: 20020045.
Operator ID: 18516.
Reported incident date: 5/16/2002.
Cause detail: THREADS STRIPPED, BROKEN PIPE COUPLING
Cause detail: LINE SEPARATED AT THE COUPLING, MP 63.988 ON THE NORTH MAIN LOOP LINE NEAR THE ONWARD COMPRESSOR STATION.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, serious incident.
PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE.
PHMSA indexed costs: $37,351 reported total cost, $26,533.439 in 1984 dollars, $56,640.904 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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