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PHMSA Report 20180030
PIEDMONT NATURAL GAS CO INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2018-02-03
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in ANDERSON, ANDERSON County, SC. Reported cause: OTHER INCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0 NATURAL GAS released, $211,500 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: 20180030.
Operator ID: 15518.
Reported incident date: 2/3/2018 10:25.
Location detail: 1.43
Cause detail: UNKNOWN
Cause detail: DURING A NORMAL RECOAT PROJECT, A BUBBLING ON THE PIPE WRAPPING WAS DISCOVERED. WHAT APPEARED TO BE A "POSSIBLE" LEAK WAS NOT MEASURABLE DUE TO ITS SMALL SIZE. A SECTION OF THE PIPING WAS CUT OUT AND SENT FOR ANALYSIS. PIPE WAS TESTED DURING ANALYSIS. TWO SMALL LEAKS WERE FOUND ON THE SEAM. THE CAUSE IS UNKNOWN.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — UNKNOWN.
PHMSA indexed costs: $211,557 reported total cost, $101,084.471 in 1984 dollars, $248,874.215 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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