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PHMSA Report 20030063
EL PASO NATURAL GAS CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2003-06-17
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in COCONINO County, AZ. Reported cause: 8. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $54,200 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: 20030063.
Operator ID: 4280.
Reported incident date: 6/17/2003.
Cause detail: OPERATOR EXCAVATION DAMAGE
Cause detail: A CONTRACTOR SHIFTED THE STRUCTURAL BRACING FOR THE MAINLINE VALVE, WHICH DAMAGED THE POWER GAS OPERATOR PIPING TO VALVE 32 ON THE 1201 LINE, WHILE EXCAVATING UNDERNEATH THE VALVE. A NIPPLE ON THE POWER GAS PIPING WAS DAMAGED, REQUIRING THE VALVE SECTION TO BE BLOWN DOWN.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — OPERATOR/CONTRACTOR EXCAVATION DAMAGE.
PHMSA indexed costs: $54,200 reported total cost, $36,558.71 in 1984 dollars, $45,675.562 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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