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PHMSA Report 20050127
ATMOS ENERGY — Gas distribution — incident on 2005-08-02
Current as of 2005-08-02 Government source
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Gas distribution incident in MURFREESBORO, RUTHERFORD County, TN. Reported cause: 8. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 1 injuries, $124,317 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: 20050127.
Operator ID: 20211.
Reported incident date: 8/2/2005.
Cause detail: OPERATOR EXCAVATION DAMAGE
Cause detail: ON AUGUST 2, 2005, ATMOS ENERGY CORPORTATION, IN MURFREESBORO, TENNESSEE EXPERIENCED A RUPTURE OF A TWO-INCH NATURAL GAS PIPELINE RESULTING IN IGNITION OF GAS HOSPITALIZATION OF ONE ATMOS EMPLOYEE.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, serious incident, not fire-first.
PHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — OPERATOR/CONTRACTOR EXCAVATION DAMAGE.
PHMSA indexed costs: $124,317 reported total cost, $74,994.139 in 1984 dollars, $184,424.756 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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