{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20160078","title":"PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-08-27","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2016-09-26","effective_on":"2016-08-27","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in WATSONVILLE, SANTA CRUZ County, CA. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 232 NATURAL GAS released, $450,000 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-d6cf05d841e5cba440d257ac.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-d6cf05d841e5cba440d257ac.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-d6cf05d841e5cba440d257ac","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip","body":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in WATSONVILLE, SANTA CRUZ County, CA. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 232 NATURAL GAS released, $450,000 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: 20160078.\n\nOperator ID: 15007.\n\nReported incident date: 8/27/2016 7:11.\n\nLocation detail: MP 4.45\n\nCause detail: EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY THIRD PARTY\n\nCause detail: NOTIFICATION ISSUE\n\nCause detail: NO NOTIFICATION MADE TO THE ONE-CALL CENTER/811\n\nCause detail: ON AUGUST 27, 2016, AT 0711 HOURS, PG&E WAS NOTIFIED OF A GAS LEAK NEAR 677 BEUNA VISTA DR, WATSONVILLE. PG&E GAS SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (GSR) ARRIVED ON-SITE AT 0745 HOURS. UPON ARRIVAL, THE GSR OBSERVED A DIG-IN ON EITHER DFM 1816-01 (MP 4.45) OR A 3/4\" SERVICE LINE FROM 1817-01 FROM AGRICULTURE WORK THAT OCCURRED ON 8/26/16. THE OEC WAS ACTIVATED AND THE LINE WAS SHUT-IN BY 1900 HOURS TO DETERMINE THE LOCATION OF THE DIG-IN. ON 8/28/16 AT 0048 HOURS, THE DIG-IN LOCATION WAS CONFIRMED TO BE ON LINE DFM 1816-01. THE CAP OF A 3/4\" MUELLER SERVICE TEE WAS STRUCK, CAUSING A CRACK ABOVE THE BRANCH WELD MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 1\" IN LENGTH AND 1/4\" WIDE AT THE WIDEST POINT ALONG ITS LENGTH. THE EXCAVATOR FARMING COMPANY THAT CAUSED THE DIG-IN WAS INTERRUPCION SOCIAL ENTERPRISE. THE EXCAVATOR DID NOT HAVE A USA TICKET. THERE WERE VISIBLE PG&E MARKERS ON THE PROPERTY. APPROXIMATELY 60 CUSTOMERS WERE IMPACTED AS A RESULT OF THIS INCIDENT. CNG WAS PROVIDED TO THE IMPACTED CUSTOMERS. MAJORITY OF THE CUSTOMERS WERE RESTORED BY 8/28/16 AT 1148 HOURS. THE REMAINING CUSTOMERS WERE RESTORED SHORTLY AFTER. REPAIRS TO THE PIPELINE WERE COMPLETED AND THE PIPELINE WAS RESTORED TO NORMAL OPERATIONS ON 8/31/16 AT 1100 HOURS. FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS REPORTED ON SITE. THERE WERE NO INJURIES, FATALITIES OR IGNITION ASSOCIATED WITH THE INCIDENT. ESTIMATED UNINTENTIONAL VOLUME OF GAS RELEASE IS LESS THAN 3 MMCF. THIS INCIDENT WAS REPORTED TO THE DOT AND CPUC DUE TO THE UNINTENTIONAL RELEASE OF GAS AND ESTIMATED DAMAGES EXCEEDING $50,000.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $451,000 reported total cost, $224,959.457 in 1984 dollars, $552,691.181 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":2639}