SPIRE MISSOURI INC. EAST — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2019-03-19

Gas transmission and gathering incident in ST. LOUIS, Not Within a County or Parish County, MO. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 4.56 NATURAL GAS released, $61,272 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: 20190048.

Operator ID: 11032.

Reported incident date: 3/19/2019 8:00.

Location detail: STA 302+27

Cause detail: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE

Cause detail: ON MARCH 19, 2019 AT 8:00 AM CST, A SPIRE STREET REPAIR CREW DAMAGED A DRIP BOX WHILE LIFTING A STREET COVER PLATE. THE 2" DRIP RISER ATTACHED TO THE TRANSMISSION PIPELINE WAS CRACKED INSIDE THE DRIP BOX AND RESULTED IN A LEAK. THE TRANSMISSION PIPELINE WAS NOT DAMAGED. SPIRE INSTALLED A 2" STOPPER FITTING AND CAPPED THE RISER TO REPAIR THE LEAK, WHICH WAS COMPLETED AT APPROXIMATELY 12:00 AM CST ON MARCH 21, 2019. A 48 HR. UPDATE WAS CALLED INTO THE NRC AT 9:18 AM CST ON MARCH 22, 2019 THAT THE LEAK HAD BEEN PERMANENTLY REPAIRED AND THERE WAS NO MORE RELEASE OF GAS TO THE ENVIRONMENT; NRC REPORT NUMBER 1240741.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE — OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $62,786 reported total cost, $29,426.499 in 1984 dollars, $72,450.489 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.