GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-09-18

Gas transmission and gathering incident in TURKEY CREEK, EVANGELINE County, LA. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 7820 NATURAL GAS released, $40,000 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: 20150121.

Operator ID: 31728.

Reported incident date: 9/18/2015 9:45.

Location detail: 60

Cause detail: EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY THIRD PARTY

Cause detail: NOTIFICATION ISSUE

Cause detail: NO NOTIFICATION MADE TO THE ONE-CALL CENTER/811

Cause detail: GULF SOUTH PIPELINE, LP EXPERIENCED A PIPELINE FAILURE ON ITS INDEX 202 IN EVANGELINE PARISH, LA NEAR TURKEY CREEK AS THE RESULT OF THIRD-PARTY DAMAGE. PIPELINE WAS STRUCK BY A PARISH ROAD CONTRACTOR CLEANING THE ROADWAY DITCH. NO ONE-CALL WAS MADE BY THE ROAD CONTRACTOR. NO INJURIES WERE INCURRED.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $65,917 reported total cost, $41,620.916 in 1984 dollars, $79,488.752 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.