{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20190048","title":"SPIRE MISSOURI INC. EAST — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2019-03-19","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2019-04-19","effective_on":"2019-03-19","summary":"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. PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-bb59cf0156bee994b1f457be.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-bb59cf0156bee994b1f457be.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-bb59cf0156bee994b1f457be","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip","body":"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.\n\nReport number: 20190048.\n\nOperator ID: 11032.\n\nReported incident date: 3/19/2019 8:00.\n\nLocation detail: STA 302+27\n\nCause detail: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE\n\nCause 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.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE — OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $62,786 reported total cost, $29,426.499 in 1984 dollars, $72,450.489 in current-year dollars.\n\nPHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings.","truncated":false,"body_characters":1647}