{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20150071","title":"MARKWEST JAVELINA PIPELINE COMPANY, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-04-28","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2015-05-22","effective_on":"2015-04-28","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 833 HYDROGEN GAS released, $1,450,000 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. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-a1663d1f8131c55e49779feb.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-a1663d1f8131c55e49779feb.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-a1663d1f8131c55e49779feb","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip","body":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 833 HYDROGEN GAS released, $1,450,000 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.\n\nReport number: 20150071.\n\nOperator ID: 9171.\n\nReported incident date: 4/28/2015 13:41.\n\nLocation detail: CITGO WEST\n\nCause detail: NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE\n\nCause detail: AN IN-LINE INSPECTION OF THE HYDROGEN PIPELINE WAS BEING CONDUCTED AND PRIOR TO THE LAST RUN OF THE IN-LINE INSPECTION TOOL (MFL), HYDROGEN GAS WAS RELEASED AND IGNITED FROM A BLIND FLANGE CONNECTION FAILURE ON A TEMPORARY SEPARATOR FILTER INSTALLED AT THE RECEIVER SITE. THE FIRE WAS IMMEDIATELY IDENTIFIED BY ON-SITE PERSONNEL. THERE WERE NO INJURIES SUSTAINED AS A RESULT OF THE INCIDENT. THE PIPELINE SECTION WAS ISOLATED AND DE-PRESSURED TO THE FACILITY FLARE. LOCAL EMERGENCY RESPONDERS WERE DISPATCHED AND CONTAINED/EXTINGUISHED THE FIRE. THE FIRE AFFECTED THE STATION PIPING AND EQUIPMENT IN THE SURROUNDING AREA. REPAIRS AND/OR REPLACEMENT OF AFFECTED PIPING AND EQUIPMENT WERE COMPLETED AND RE-COMMISSIONED.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $1,451,027 reported total cost, $728,369.162 in 1984 dollars, $1,792,573.18 in current-year dollars.\n\nPHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings.","truncated":false,"body_characters":1734}