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PHMSA Report 19910212
PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC & GAS CO — Gas distribution — incident on 1991-10-08
Current as of 1991-10-08 Government source
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Gas distribution incident in GARFIELD, BERGEN County, NJ. Reported cause: OTHER. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $50,000 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: 19910212.
Operator ID: 15952.
Reported incident date: 19911008.
Cause detail: ON TUESDAY 10/8/91 AT APPROXIMATELY 2:40 P.M., WHILE PROCEEDING TO UPRATE A 120 PSI DESIGN GAS MAIN FROM 100 PSI TO 120PSI, MULTIPLE FAILURES OCCURED IN THE AREA OF THE METER SET AT THE GARDEN STATE PAPER CO., #141 LANZA AVE., GARFIELD. THE ESCAPING GAS IGNITED AND EXTENSIVE DAMAGED RESULTED. THERE WERE NO INJURIES.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — MISCELLANEOUS.
PHMSA indexed costs: $50,000 reported total cost, $40,132.582 in 1984 dollars, $98,834.197 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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