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PHMSA Report 20120014
ANR PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-01-11
Current as of 2012-01-11 Government source
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in BARODA, BERRIEN County, MI. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 800 NATURAL GAS released, $350,000 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: 20120014.
Operator ID: 405.
Reported incident date: 1/11/2012 12:50.
Location detail: MP 918
Cause detail: DESIGN-, CONSTRUCTION-, INSTALLATION-, OR FABRICATION-RELATED
Cause detail: BRUSHING CREW NOTICED BUBBLES IN WATER IN AN AREA OVER THE PIPELINE AND NOTIFIED STATION PERSONNEL. UPON FURTHER INVESTIGATION, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT GAS LEAK WAS FROM COMPANY PIPELINE. LEAK DETECTION EQUIPMENT WAS USED. SUBSEQUENTLY, A METALLURGICAL STUDY FOUND THAT THE CAUSE WAS DETERMINED TO BE AN UNREPAIRED BURN-THROUGH OF A WELD.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION OR FABRICATION-RELATED.
PHMSA indexed costs: $368,000 reported total cost, $196,292.761 in 1984 dollars, $475,158.96 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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