{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20020029","title":"WILLIAMS GAS PIPELINE - TRANSCO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2002-03-04","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2002-04-11","effective_on":"2002-03-04","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in WEST FRIENDSHIP, HOWARD County, MD. Reported cause: 14. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $350,000 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. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-c4dad95bdc28e855aaa9eec4.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-c4dad95bdc28e855aaa9eec4.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-c4dad95bdc28e855aaa9eec4","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/3f48859a-5658-4f64-acf0-e33e632af625?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%202002%20to%20December%202009.zip","body":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in WEST FRIENDSHIP, HOWARD County, MD. Reported cause: 14. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $350,000 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.\n\nReport number: 20020029.\n\nOperator ID: 19570.\n\nReported incident date: 3/4/2002.\n\nCause detail: BODY OF PIPE\n\nCause detail: COMPANY EMPLOYEE WHILE MOWING ROW FOUND GAS ESCAPING FROM THE VENT PIPE OF THE CASED CROSSING OF HWY 40. AFTER PIPELINE WAS ISOLATED AND BLOWN DOWN, INVESTIGATION FOUND THE LEAK TO BE INSIDE THE EXTENDED CASING THAT WAS NOT UNDER THE ROAD PAVEMENT. FURTHER EXAMINATION FOUND THAT DUE TO A PIPE MILL DEFECT, AN INTERNAL CRACK DEVELOPED CAUSING THE PINHOLE LEAK.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — BODY OF PIPE.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $350,000 reported total cost, $238,487.127 in 1984 dollars, $544,617.417 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":1273}