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PHMSA Report 20140193
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING LLC — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2014-04-17
Current as of 2014-04-17 Government source
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Hazardous liquid incident in BEAUMONT, JEFFERSON County, TX. Reported cause: OTHER ACCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.01 REFINED AND/OR PETROLEUM PRODUCT (NON-HVL) WHICH IS A LIQUID AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $0 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: 20140193.
Operator ID: 31618.
Reported incident date: 4/17/2014 9:49.
Location detail: 0+00
Cause detail: MISCELLANEOUS
Cause detail: ON 4/17/2014, A FLASH FIRE OCCURRED DURING A PIPELINE TIE-IN INTO AN EXISTING PIPE AT THE BEAUMONT TERMINAL. PRIOR TO COMMENCING WORK, A JOB PLAN WAS DEVELOPED TO ISOLATE AND DRAIN UP THE PIPE HEADER AND PERFORM ATMOSPHERIC MONITORING OF THE WORK AREA. THE EXISTING PIPE WAS THEN COLD CUT AND PURGED OF HYDROCARBONS TO FACILITATE THE TIE-IN OF THE NEW PIPELINE. AIR MOVERS WERE INSTALLED TO PULL ANY POTENTIAL HYDROCARBON VAPORS FROM THE WORK AREA. A FIRE WATCHMAN WAS POSTED AND A ZERO LEL CONDITION WAS ACHIEVED PRIOR TO COMMENCEMENT OF HOT WORK ACTIVITIES. DURING THE TIE-IN WELDING PROCESS, VAPORS ENTERED THE WORK AREA DUE TO INADEQUATE ISOLATION OF THE SEGMENT AND A FLASH OCCURRED. THE WORK SITE WAS SHUT DOWN IMMEDIATELY; THERE WERE NO INJURIES OR PROPERTY DAMAGE. TELEPHONIC NOTIFICATION TO THE NRC WAS MADE DUE TO THE FACT THAT A FIRE OCCURRED. NRC REPORT # 108003 WAS GENERATED. SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATION WAS CONDUCTED THROUGH CPF 4-2014-5017 AND SUBMITTED TO PHMSA ON JULY 13, 2015.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — MISCELLANEOUS.
PHMSA indexed costs: $0 reported total cost, $0 in 1984 dollars, $0 in current-year dollars.
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