PHMSA Report 20160009
PHMSA Report 20160009
Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, LOGAN County, AR. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 12819 NATURAL GAS released, $0 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: 20160009.
Operator ID: 602.
Reported incident date: 1/10/2016 7:45.
Location detail: DUNN STATION
Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT
Cause detail: PUBLIC NOTIFIED COMPANY EMPLOYEE OF POSSIBLE RELIEF THAT WAS VENTING AT DUNN STATION. EMPLOYEE INVESTIGATED AND FOUND A 6 INCH RELIEF VENTING ON THE SUCTION HEADER OF THE STATION. HE SECURED THE VENT AT 08:25. AT 8:50 EMPLOYEE CONTACTED SYSTEM CONTROL TO REPORT OUT THE EVENT. HE FOUND ICE AND TRASH IN THE REGULATOR. IT WAS CLEANED AND THEN RETURNED TO SERVICE.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.
PHMSA indexed costs: $28,202 reported total cost, $30,026.388 in 1984 dollars, $36,867.844 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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