# EXPLORER PIPELINE CO — Hazardous liquid — incident on 1998-09-23

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 19980151
- **title:** EXPLORER PIPELINE CO — Hazardous liquid — incident on 1998-09-23
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 1998-10-26
- **effective on:** 1998-09-23
- **summary:** Hazardous liquid incident in FANNIN County, TX. Reported cause: FAILED PIPE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 20 OIL AND GASOLINE released, $120,000 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, not serious.
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Hazardous liquid incident in FANNIN County, TX. Reported cause: FAILED PIPE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 20 OIL AND GASOLINE released, $120,000 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: 19980151.

Operator ID: 4805.

Reported incident date: 19980923.

Location detail: 2 MILES NORTH AND 1/2 MILE WEST OF INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 69 AND COUNTY ROAD 896, NEAR LEONARD, TEXAS.

Cause detail: ON SEPTEMBER 23, 1998 EXPLORER'S MAINTENANCE CONTRACTOR BEGAN EXCAVATION ALONGTHE 28" PIPELINE FOLLOWING DISCOVERY OF REFINED PRODUCT IN AN OLD ABANDONEDHAND-DUG WATER WELL LOCATED 75 FEET EAST OF THE PIPELINE NEAR LEONARD, TEXAS.THERE WERE NO OTHER VISIBLE SIGNS OF RELEASED PRODUCT IN THE VICINITY, SOEXCAVATION ALONG THE PIPELINE RIGHT-OF-WAY WAS STARTED TO LOCATE A POSSIBLELEAK. AT APPROXIMATELY 1015 HOURS ON SEPTEMBER 23, 1998 PRODUCT WASDISCOVERED AT A LOCATION 150 FEET SOUTH OF THE ABANDONED WATER WELL SIT.VACUUM TRUCKS WERE ON SITE WHILE EXCAVATION CONTINUED UNTIL THE SOURCE OF THELEAK WAS DETERMINED TO BE A SMALL CRACK ON THE BOTTOM OF THE 28" PIPE WHERE ITWAS RESTING ON ROCK. THE LINE WAS SHUT DOWN AT 1040 HOURS SEPTEMBER 24, 1998,A FULL ENCIRCLEMENT BOLT-ON PLIDCO SPLIT SLEEVE INSTALLED AND THE LINE PLACEDBACK IN OPERATION AT 1412 HOURS THE SAME DAY. AT 24-FOOT SECTION OF THEDEFECTIVE PIPE WAS REMOVED AND REPLACED ON OCTOBER 15, 1998. CLEANUPACTIVITIES ARE BEING COORDINATED WITH THE TNRCC.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL/WELD/EQUIP FAILURE — UNSPECIFIED PIPE BODY OR SEAM.

PHMSA indexed costs: $120,000 reported total cost, $83,813.818 in 1984 dollars, $206,407.638 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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