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PHMSA Report 20010035
ALABAMA GAS CORP (EX. MARENGO CORP PROPERTY) — Gas distribution — incident on 2001-01-09
Current as of 2001-01-09 Government source
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Gas distribution incident in BIRMINGHAM, JEFFERSON County, AL. Reported cause: CONSTRUCTION/OPERATING ERROR. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $83,000 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: 20010035.
Operator ID: 180.
Reported incident date: 20010109.
Location detail: NO DATA
Cause detail: WHILE INSTALLING A MAIN BY DIRECTIONALLY BORING, A CONTRACTOR DAMAGED TWO WATER LINES AND A LOW PRESSURE CAST IRON GAS MAIN. WATER FILLED PORTIONS OF THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM THUS CAUSING THE LOSS OF SERVICE TO 209 HOUSES.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL/WELD/EQUIP FAILURE — UNSPECIFIED MATERIAL/WELD FAILURE.
PHMSA indexed costs: $83,000 reported total cost, $54,761.493 in 1984 dollars, $134,860.704 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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