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PHMSA Report 20030051
BEAR CREEK STORAGE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2003-05-11
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in BIENVILLE, BIENVILLE County, LA. Reported cause: 16. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $308,400 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: 20030051.
Operator ID: 1217.
Reported incident date: 5/11/2003.
Cause detail: JOINT
Cause detail: A FIRE AND EXPLOSION OCCURRED IN THE BUILDING FOR COMPRESSOR UNIT 1A AT THE BEAR CREEK STORAGE FACILITY. UPON INVESTIGATION, IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THE GASKET HAD FAILED ON THE DISCHARGE BOTTLE, FOR UNIT 1A, COMPRESSOR NO.7, RESULTING IN THE INCIDENT.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — JOINT/FITTING/COMPONENT.
PHMSA indexed costs: $308,400 reported total cost, $196,874.602 in 1984 dollars, $477,837.771 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.
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