# SUN PIPE LINE CO — Hazardous liquid — incident on 1997-03-04

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 19970042
- **title:** SUN PIPE LINE CO — Hazardous liquid — incident on 1997-03-04
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 1997-03-15
- **effective on:** 1997-03-04
- **summary:** Hazardous liquid incident in NOBLE County, OK. Reported cause: FAILED WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 60 CRUDE OIL released, $7,500 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. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
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Hazardous liquid incident in NOBLE County, OK. Reported cause: FAILED WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 60 CRUDE OIL released, $7,500 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: 19970042.

Operator ID: 18718.

Reported incident date: 19970304.

Location detail: NW/4 SEC. 33, TOWNSHIP 24 NORTH, RANGE 1 WEST 3/8 MI. E. FROM JUNCTION OF HWY 15 AND 77 ON SOUTH SIDE OF ROAD

Cause detail: WELD FAILED AT LOCATION WHERE PIPELINE DOES A 90 DEGREE BEND AND CAME ABOVEGROUND. PIPE WAS ALSO DAMAGED. OIL RAN DOWN DITCH ALONGSIDE ROAD, THROUGH ACULVERT, ACROSS A FIELD AND INTO A LOW LYING AREA WHERE WATER WAS STANDINGFROM RECENT RAIN.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL/WELD/EQUIP FAILURE — UNSPECIFIED WELD.

PHMSA indexed costs: $7,500 reported total cost, $5,303.773 in 1984 dollars, $13,061.56 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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