PHMSA Report 20150355 - SINCLAIR TRANSPORTATION COMPANY — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-09-08 | Regulus

Hazardous liquid incident in Not Within a Municipality, MACON County, MO. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 5 REFINED AND/OR PETROLEUM PRODUCT (NON-HVL) WHICH IS A LIQUID AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $1,500 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: 20150355.

Operator ID: 15156.

Reported incident date: 9/8/2015 16:06.

Location detail: 67.16

Cause detail: DAMAGE BY CAR, TRUCK, OR OTHER MOTORIZED VEHICLE/EQUIPMENT NOT ENGAGED IN EXCAVATION

Cause detail: A CONTRACTOR WAS PERFORMING A MOWING OPERATION ON THE PIPELINE RIGHT-OF-WAY AND STRUCK THE PIPELINE WITH THE MOWING EQUIPMENT AT A LOCATION WHERE THE PIPELINE WAS PARTIALLY EXPOSED. THE PIPELINE WAS CLEARLY MARKED AT THIS LOCATION. A SINCLAIR EMPLOYEE WAS NEARBY AND WAS NOTIFIED BY THE CONTRACTOR THAT HE HAD STRUCK THE PIPE. THE SINCLAIR EMPLOYEE DIRECTED THE CONTRACTOR TO CONTAIN THE LEAKING PRODUCT WITH THE CONTRACTOR'S EQUIPMENT. THE SINCLAIR EMPLOYEE CALLED THE CONTROL CENTER TO NOTIFY. AT THE SAME TIME THE CONTROLLER OBSERVED A LOSS IN PRESSURE AT GIBBS STATION WHICH IS 7.4 MILES DOWNSTREAM OF THE LEAK LOCATION. THE LINE WAS DRAINED AND A PIPE REPLACEMENT REPAIR WAS DONE. AS PART OF SINCLAIR'S FINAL ORDER CPF NO. 3-2015-5006 THIS PIPE AND THE ADJACENT ROAD CROSSING WERE REPLACED WITH NEW PIPE. THE NEW PIPE WAS INSTALLED WITH MORE THAN REQUIRED DEPTH OF COVER (>4'). 1548 CUBIC YARDS OF CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS REMOVED FROM THE LEAK SITE.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE — VEHICLE NOT ENGAGED IN EXCAVATION.

PHMSA indexed costs: $103,770 reported total cost, $52,057.966 in 1984 dollars, $128,202.75 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.