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PHMSA Report 19870023
WILLIAMS PIPELINE CO — Hazardous liquid — incident on 1986-12-16
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Hazardous liquid incident in PONCA, KAY County, OK. Reported cause: OTHER. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 126 GASOLINE released, $0 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: 19870023.
Operator ID: 22610.
Reported incident date: 19861216.
Location detail: SE/4 OF THE SE/4 OF SECTION 4, T25N, R2E, KAY COUNTY, OKLAHOMA
Cause detail: PIPE IN DRESSER COUPLING
Cause detail: APPROXIMATELY 7 HOURS AFTER STARTUP, A PIPE PULLED OUT OF THE 6 INCH DRESSER COUPLING ON THE 50 H.P. TANK PUMP DISCHARGE. IT WAS DISCOVERED IMMEDIATELY, THE OPERATION WAS SHUTDOWN AND THE VALVES CLOSED. A TOTAL OF 126 BARRELS OF LEADED GASOLINE WAS SPILLED, BUT IT WAS CONTAINED WITHIN TANK #608'S FIREWALL. A TOTAL OF 96 BARRELS WERE RECOVERED. THE NET LOSS WAS 30 BARRELS.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — MISCELLANEOUS.
PHMSA indexed costs: $0 reported total cost, $0 in 1984 dollars, $0 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.
This material provides agency context. It does not replace binding regulatory text, and its legal effect depends on the underlying authority and facts.