BADGER PIPELINE CO — Hazardous liquid — incident on 1987-03-12

Hazardous liquid incident in STOUGHTON, DANE County, WI. Reported cause: OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 70 FUEL OIL released, $60,000 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: 19870061.

Operator ID: 1036.

Reported incident date: 19870312.

Location detail: NEAR HAMMOND AND HANNERVILLE ROADS ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STOUGHTON

Cause detail: DAMAGE BY OTHERS

Cause detail: ON MARCH 12, 1987 AT 11:10 A.M. BADGER PIPELINE WAS NOTIFIED BY A MR. CRAIG FULLER, OWNER OF FULLER EXCAVATING, THAT HE HAD PUNCTURED OUR PRODUCTS PIPELINE ANDTHAT PRODUCT WAS LEAKING FROM THE PIPE. MR. FULLER HAD BEEN DIGGING IN CONNECTION WITH THE PERFORMANCE OF PERCOLATION TESTS PRIOR TO DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE NEAR WHERE OUR PIPELINE CROSSES HAMMOND ROAD AT MP 161.6 NEAR STOUGHTON, WISCONSIN. OUR TULSA CONTROL CENTER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE LEAK AND WERE TOLD TO SHUT DOWN THE LINE, LEAVING AS LITTLE PRESSURE AS POSSIBLE. THE LINE SECTION WAS ISOLATED BY CLOSING THE JANESVILLE STATION DISCHARGE VALVE AND THE MADISON MAINLINE BLOCK VALVE. THE LINE WAS SHUTDOWN AND ISOLATED BY 11:14 A.M. THE LEAK SITE WAS FURTHERISOLATED BY CLOSING AT 12:45 P.M. THE ISOLATED SECTION CONTAINING THE DAMAGED PIPE IS APPROXIMATELY 14.5 MILES IN LENGTH. BADGER PERSONNEL WERE DISPATCHED BY RADIO TO SECURE THE SITE AND TO MAKE TEMPORARY REPAIRS. DUE TO THE REMOTENESS OF THE SITE THERE WAS NO DANGER TO POPULATED AREAS. SUPPORT GROUPS CALLED BY BADGERARRIVED AT 4:30 P.M. AND A TEMPORARY REPAIR WAS COMPLETED AT 5:30 P.M. APPROXIMATELY 1275 GALLONS OF #2 FUEL OIL WAS RECOVERED FROM THE SITE. FULLER EXCAVATIONWAS AWARE THAT THE LINE WAS IN THE AREA; HOWEVER, NEGLECTED TO CALL NEITHER BADGER PIPELINE NOR THE WISCONSIN ONE CALL SYSTEM. THE LINE PUNCTURE OCCURRED IN A CORN FIELD APPROXIMATELY 800 FEET SOUTH OF HAMMOND ROAD WHICH IS 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STOUGHTON, WISCONSIN. A SHALLOW TRENCH WAS DUG AROUND THE PERIMETER OF THE SITE WITH SOME DEEPER CATCH PITS. THERE WAS A SMALL CREEK OUT-SIDE OF THE PERIMETER WHICH WAS CLEANED OF DEBRIS AND A BOOM WAS INSTALLED IN THE EVENT THE PRODUCT SHOULD REACH IT. THE PRODUCT WAS CONTAINED PRIOR TO REACHING THE SHALLOW TRENCH. CLEAN-UP OF THE SITE INVOLVED THE REMOVAL OF ALL OF THE CONTAMINATED SOIL WHICH WAS HAULED TO THE DANE COUNTY LANDFILL. REPAIRS TO THE LINE WERE MADE BY INSTALLING TWO STOPPLE TEES, FOLLOWED BY WELDING OF A 10'6" SECTION OF 12-3/4 O.D.LINE PIPE. THIS COMPLETED THE LINE REPAIR.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $60,000 reported total cost, $55,539.543 in 1984 dollars, $136,776.801 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.