{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20160041","title":"EAST TENNESSEE NATURAL GAS, LLC (SPECTRA ENERGY PARTNERS, LP) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-04-28","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2016-05-27","effective_on":"2016-04-28","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, MAURY County, TN. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 4639 NATURAL GAS released, $1,000 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: not significant, not serious.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-aee25af1c3fd28a969e9e499.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-aee25af1c3fd28a969e9e499.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-aee25af1c3fd28a969e9e499","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 Not Within a Municipality, MAURY County, TN. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 4639 NATURAL GAS released, $1,000 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: 20160041.\n\nOperator ID: 4070.\n\nReported incident date: 4/28/2016 21:50.\n\nLocation detail: 6.38\n\nCause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT\n\nCause detail: AT 9:50 PM ON APRIL 28, 2016 A REGULATOR DIAPHRAGM AT THE EAST TENNESSEE NATURAL GAS MT. PLEASANT REDUCING STATION IN MAURY COUNTY, TENNESSEE DEVELOPED A TEAR WHICH CAUSED THE DOWNSTREAM PRESSURE TO INCREASE ABOVE THE RELIEF VALVE SET POINT PRESSURE RESULTING IN A RELEASE OF NATURAL GAS. APPROXIMATELY 100 PEOPLE WERE EVACUATED FROM THE VICINITY BY EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICIALS AS A PRECAUTION. SPECTRA ENERGY PERSONNEL SUBSEQUENTLY ISOLATED THE FACILITIES HALTING THE NATURAL GAS DISCHARGE.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $10,278 reported total cost, $10,375.738 in 1984 dollars, $13,354.219 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":1514}