# DIXIE PIPELINE COMPANY — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2003-03-13

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20030157
- **title:** DIXIE PIPELINE COMPANY — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2003-03-13
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2003-03-13
- **effective on:** 2003-03-13
- **summary:** Hazardous liquid incident in APPLING, COLUMBIA County, GA. Reported cause: 19. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, YES PROPANE released, $151,886 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: significant incident, not serious.
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Hazardous liquid incident in APPLING, COLUMBIA County, GA. Reported cause: 19. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, YES PROPANE released, $151,886 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: 20030157.

Operator ID: 3445.

Reported incident date: 3/13/2003.

Cause detail: PIPE SEAM WELD

Cause detail: PIPE SEAM FAILURE CONFIRMED BY METALLURGICAL ANALYSIS. ANALYSIS WAS SUBMITTED TO OPS UNDER SEPARATE TRANSMITTAL AS PART OF CORRECTIVE ACTION ORDER. ALL REQUIREMENTS OF CPF NO. 2-2003-5002H HAVE BEEN MET AND PRE-FAILURE OPERATING PRESSURES.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — PIPE SEAM.

PHMSA indexed costs: $151,886 reported total cost, $96,803.432 in 1984 dollars, $238,397.06 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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