TEXAS GAS TRANSMISSION, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2017-01-07

Gas transmission and gathering incident in BEDFORD, LAWRENCE County, IN. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 9601 NATURAL GAS released, $200 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: 20170011.

Operator ID: 19270.

Reported incident date: 1/7/2017 2:21.

Location detail: 77.84

Cause detail: TEMPERATURE

Cause detail: RELIEF VALVE ON LEESVILLE COMPRESSOR STATION'S #4 ENGINE VENTED PREMATURELY. BOARDWALK PERSONNEL CHECKED THE SET POINT WHICH WAS CORRECT AND CHECKED FOR REPEATABILITY WHICH DID NOT OCCUR. THE ENGINE WAS RETURNED TO SERVICE AND THE EVENT REOCCURRED APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR LATER. BOARDWALK PERSONNEL THEN REBUILT AND TESTED RELIEF VALVE AND PILOT AND RETURNED ENGINE TO SERVICE WITH NO ADDITIONAL INTERRUPTIONS.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE — TEMPERATURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $40,817 reported total cost, $37,742.981 in 1984 dollars, $47,670.595 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.