{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20150127","title":"TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS PIPE LINE COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-10-10","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2015-10-28","effective_on":"2015-10-10","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in PRINCETON, MECER County, NJ. Reported cause: OTHER INCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 6271 NATURAL GAS 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. PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-ee013809a8200c8a52789f94.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-ee013809a8200c8a52789f94.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-ee013809a8200c8a52789f94","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip","body":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in PRINCETON, MECER County, NJ. Reported cause: OTHER INCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 6271 NATURAL GAS 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.\n\nReport number: 20150127.\n\nOperator ID: 19570.\n\nReported incident date: 10/10/2015 8:15.\n\nLocation detail: 1776.75\n\nCause detail: MISCELLANEOUS\n\nCause detail: DUE TO THE LOCATION OF A VALVE ON A MAINLINE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AN ATTACHED VALVE GREASE LINE HAD TO BE EXTENDED. A FUNCTION OF THE MODIFICATION PROCESS INCLUDED CUTTING THE GREASE LINE. WHEN THE GREASE LINE WAS CUT AN INTERNAL VALVE COMPONENT FAILED ALLOWING GAS TO ESCAPE, THE TRANSMISSION LINE SEGMENT WAS ISOLATED AND THE GREASE LINE WAS REPAIRED WITH A COUPLING. AFTER THE VALVE GREASE LINE WAS REPAIRED THE TRANSMISSION LINE SEGMENT WAS PRESSURED UP AND PUT BACK IN SERVICE.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — MISCELLANEOUS.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $15,700 reported total cost, $14,557.512 in 1984 dollars, $17,874.413 in current-year dollars.\n\nPHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings.","truncated":false,"body_characters":1437}