K N INTERSTATE GAS TRANSMISSION CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2002-07-22

Gas transmission and gathering incident in LODGEPOLE, CHEYENNE County, NE. Reported cause: 2. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $84,683 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: 20020071.

Operator ID: 1007.

Reported incident date: 7/22/2002.

Cause detail: CORROSION, INTERNAL

Cause detail: PREFERENTIAL CORROSION ON INTERIOR ERW SEAM WELD INITATED RUPTURE OF INLINE DRIP BELOW TRANSMISSION PIPELINE.INSTANTANEOUS RELEASE OF GAS WAS IGNITED PROBABLY BY OVERHEAD RURAL ELECTRIC POWER LINES. LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMET RESPONDED IMMEDIATELY TO THE EMERGENCY CALL AND BLOCKED ALL RURAL ROADS IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA. KMIGT PERSONNEL RESPONDED IMMEDIATELY AND ISOLATED PIPELINE SECTION FROM NATURAL GAS SOURCES. FIRE BURNED FARM CROPS IN VICINITY OF RUPTURE ALONG WITH THE POWER POLE AND SOME ELECTRIC POWER LINES. RURAL POWER COMPANY RESTORED SERVICE WITHIN A FEW DAYS. SAMPLES OF THE FAILED MATERIAL WERE SENT FOR EVLAUATION TO A METALLUGIST AT E N ENGINEERING IN CHICAGO, IL. ADDITIONAL MITIGATION IS BEING CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PLAN FILED WITH THE OPS CENTRAL REGION OFFICE

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $84,683 reported total cost, $73,922.301 in 1984 dollars, $109,613.824 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.