{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20160089","title":"PIEDMONT NATURAL GAS CO INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-08-02","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2016-11-09","effective_on":"2016-08-02","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in SAINT PAULS, ROBESON County, NC. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1272.88 NATURAL GAS released, $10,909 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-e13d9be08cc7a6b3accab913.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-e13d9be08cc7a6b3accab913.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-e13d9be08cc7a6b3accab913","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 SAINT PAULS, ROBESON County, NC. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1272.88 NATURAL GAS released, $10,909 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: 20160089.\n\nOperator ID: 15518.\n\nReported incident date: 8/2/2016 12:22.\n\nLocation detail: 36015.6518382\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: WHILE GRADING A DRIVEWAY FOR PAVING, A THIRD-PARTY CONTRACTOR HIT AND PUNCTURED THE 3\" TRANSMISSION LINE. ONE BUSINESS WAS EVACUATED, BUT NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES AFFECTED IS UNKNOWN. PRIOR NOTIFICATION OF INCIDENT WAS NOT MADE AS IT WAS NOT THOUGHT TO BE REPORTABLE. IT WAS NOT UNTIL FINAL BILLS FROM CONTRACTORS FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND REPAIR WERE RECEIVED THAT IT WAS DETERMINED TO BE REPORTABLE.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $100,949 reported total cost, $58,145.056 in 1984 dollars, $124,837.169 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":1507}