SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-04-20

Hazardous liquid incident in SINKING SPRINGS, BERKS County, PA. Reported cause: INCORRECT OPERATION. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.3 REFINED AND/OR PETROLEUM PRODUCT (NON-HVL) WHICH IS A LIQUID AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $0 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: 20150184.

Operator ID: 18718.

Reported incident date: 4/20/2015 7:30.

Location detail: MONTELLO STA

Cause detail: OTHER INCORRECT OPERATION

Cause detail: DURING ROUTINE ROUNDS AT MONTELLO PUMP STATION A STATION OPERATOR NOTICED AN ODOR OF GASOLINE IN THE AREA OF THE 600 MANIFOLD. UPON INVESTIGATION HE DISCOVERED GASOLINE WEEPING OUT OF TUBING INTO A CONTAINMENT AREA. THE TUBING WAS CONNECTED TO A 1/2" BLEEDER VALVE FOR A 10"TRU-SEAL BLOCK AND BLEED VALVE (V702) ON #2 BOOSTER HEADER FOR 610 TANK LINE. THE OPERATOR IMMEDIATELY ATTEMPTED TO CLOSE THE BLEEDER VALVE. IT TURNED APPROXIMATELY "A 16TH OF AN INCH" AND THE WEEPING PRODUCT STOPPED. THE OPERATOR NOTIFIED SUPERVISION. LOCAL RESOURCES WERE USED TO CLEAN UP THE GASOLINE RELEASED. THE INCIDENT WAS INVESTIGATED WHICH RESULTED IN A DETERMINATION THAT THE MOST LIKELY CAUSE WAS THE INADVERTENT BUMPING OF THE 1/2" BLEEDER VALVE DURING REPLACEMENT OF THE SURROUNDING CATWALK.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: INCORRECT OPERATION — OTHER INCORRECT OPERATION.

PHMSA indexed costs: $530 reported total cost, $265.883 in 1984 dollars, $654.789 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.