# KANSAS GAS SERVICE — Gas distribution — incident on 2004-12-04

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20050008
- **title:** KANSAS GAS SERVICE — Gas distribution — incident on 2004-12-04
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2004-12-04
- **effective on:** 2004-12-04
- **summary:** Gas distribution incident in WICHITA, SEDGWICK County, KS. Reported cause: 1. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 2 injuries, $47,000 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, serious incident, not fire-first.
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Gas distribution incident in WICHITA, SEDGWICK County, KS. Reported cause: 1. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 2 injuries, $47,000 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: 20050008.

Operator ID: 31159.

Reported incident date: 12/4/2004.

Cause detail: CORROSION, EXTERNAL

Cause detail: AN INVESTIGATION REVEALED NATURAL GAS WAS ESCAPING FROM A MAIN AND APPARENTLY MIGRATED TO A NEARBY STRUCTURE WHERE IGNITION OCCURRED.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, serious incident, not fire-first.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $47,000 reported total cost, $29,240.373 in 1984 dollars, $72,010.04 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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