CITGO PRODUCTS PIPELINE CO — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2020-10-10

Hazardous liquid incident in Not Within a Municipality, CALCASIEU County, LA. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.35 HVL OR OTHER FLAMMABLE OR TOXIC FLUID WHICH IS A GAS 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: 20200302.

Operator ID: 30755.

Reported incident date: 10/10/2020 12:00.

Location detail: IN FACILITY

Cause detail: HIGH WINDS

Cause detail: A LIGHTPOLE BROKE DURING HIGH WINDS FROM HURRICANE DELTA AND FELL ONTO A PIPELINE VALVE. THE HANDWHEEL ON THE VALVE WAS BROKEN AS WELL AS A VALVE GREASE PLUG. THE C3 MIX WAS RELEASED AT A VERY SLOW RATE FROM THE BROKEN GREASE PLUG. A NEW VALVE HAS BEEN INSTALLED AND IS OPERATIONAL. THE ACCIDENT WAS CAUSED BY A NATURAL FORCE (HURRICANE). THERE ARE NO NEEDED MEASURES TO TAKE FOR FUTURE PREVENTION OF THIS ACCIDENT.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE — HIGH WINDS.

PHMSA indexed costs: $30,030 reported total cost, $13,885.349 in 1984 dollars, $34,195.341 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.