PHMSA Report 20020076
PHMSA Report 20020076
Gas transmission and gathering incident in SHELBYVILLE, SHELBY County, IN. Reported cause: 19. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $131,000 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: 20020076.
Operator ID: 405.
Reported incident date: 9/9/2002.
Cause detail: PIPE SEAM WELD
Cause detail: A SMALL LEAK WAS DISCOVERED FOLLOWING AN AERIAL PATROL OVER AN AREA OF DEAD VEGETATION. UPON FURTHER INVESTIGATION, A NON-FUSION CRACK 1/4" LONG IN THE LONGITUDINAL SEAM WAS FOUND.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — PIPE SEAM.
PHMSA indexed costs: $131,000 reported total cost, $111,680.091 in 1984 dollars, $173,218.996 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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