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PHMSA Report 20050145
ALABAMA GAS CORPORATION — Gas distribution — incident on 2005-10-10
Current as of 2005-10-10 Government source
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Gas distribution incident in BIRMINGHAM, JEFFERSON County, AL. Reported cause: 25. Reported consequences: 3 fatalities, 0 injuries, $50,000 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.
Report number: 20050145.
Operator ID: 180.
Reported incident date: 10/10/2005.
Cause detail: UNKNOWN
Cause detail: THERE HAVE BEEN PUBLIC REPORTS BY THE INVESTIGATING FIRE DEPARTMENT THAT THE SERVICE LINE RUPTURED BY EXTERNAL FORCES FROM FALLING DEBRIS AFTER RESIDENCE CAUGHT FIRE.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, serious incident, not fire-first.
PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — UNKNOWN.
PHMSA indexed costs: $50,000 reported total cost, $30,190.302 in 1984 dollars, $74,349.421 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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