{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20020093","title":"ARKANSAS OKLAHOMA GAS CORP — Gas distribution — incident on 2002-09-08","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2002-09-19","effective_on":"2002-09-08","summary":"Gas distribution incident in FORT SMITH, SEBASTIAN County, AR. Reported cause: DAMAGE BY OUTSIDE FORCES. Reported consequences: 1 fatalities, 0 injuries, $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. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, serious incident.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-a452fd7237005ed97b981d36.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-a452fd7237005ed97b981d36.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-a452fd7237005ed97b981d36","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/7ccf83c5-a778-4c51-ba2d-a9a84e221c7b?download=true&filename=Gas%20Distribution%20Incident%20Data%20-%20mid%201984%20to%20February%202004.zip","body":"Gas distribution incident in FORT SMITH, SEBASTIAN County, AR. Reported cause: DAMAGE BY OUTSIDE FORCES. Reported consequences: 1 fatalities, 0 injuries, $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.\n\nReport number: 20020093.\n\nOperator ID: 621.\n\nReported incident date: 20020908.\n\nLocation detail: NO DATA\n\nCause detail: AN AUTO RAN OFF BURNHAM ROAD, JUMPED THE DITCH, EJECTING A PASSENGER AND CAUSING HER DEATH. THE CAR CONTINUED ON, RUNNING THROUGH A FENCE, HITTING A GAS METER SET, SEVERING THE METER SET ABOVE THE SHUT-OFF VALVE, AND CAUSING A RELEASE OF NATURAL GAS. THE RELEASE OF NATURAL GAS WAS NOT A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN THE DEATH. HOWEVER, THIS REPORT IS BEING SUBMITTED SINCE THERE WAS A DEATH AS A RESULT OF THE AUTO ACCIDENT AND A RELEASE OF NATURAL GAS.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, serious incident.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $0 reported total cost, $0 in 1984 dollars, $0 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":1338}