LONE STAR GAS CO (DISTRIBUTION DIVISION) — Gas distribution — incident on 1998-10-10

Gas distribution incident in ARLINGTON, TARRANT County, TX. Reported cause: DAMAGE BY OUTSIDE FORCES. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $110,000 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: 19980247.

Operator ID: 11682.

Reported incident date: 19981010.

Cause detail: THE PIPING IN A COMPRESSION COUPLING, ON THE SERVICE TAP FOR THE DWELLING AT1412 LACKLAND (ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE INCIDENT LOCATION), WAS PULLED OUTOF ITS FITTING, WITH A GAS LEAK ENSUING FROM THAT COMPRESSION COUPLING. THEOPERATOR BELIEVES THAT EARTH MOVEMENT, SPECIFICALLY GROUND SHIFTING, CAUSEDTHE PIPING TO SEPARATE FROM THE COMPRESSION COUPLING. THE OPERATOR ALSOWISHES TO NOTE THAT ON SEPTEMBER 13, 1998, THE CUSTOMER AT THE INCIDENTLOCATION HAD REPORTED SMELLING GAS AT HIS RESIDENCE. IN RESPONSE, THEOPERATOR INVESTIGATED AND FOUND A GRADE 2 LEAK ON THE SERVICE LINE FOR THEDWELLING AT 1412 LACKLAND. THE OPERATOR FOUND NO CONCENTRATION OF GAS,HOWEVER, NEAR THE RESIDENCE AT THE SUBJECT LOCATION, OR IN THE SEWER AT THATRESIDENCE, EITHER ON SEPTEMBER 13 OR WHILE INVESTIGATING A SUBSEQUENT REPORTOF GAS SMELLS MADE BY A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC ON SEPTEMBER 17.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE — EARTH MOVEMENT.

PHMSA indexed costs: $110,000 reported total cost, $76,829.333 in 1984 dollars, $189,207.002 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.