{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20140065","title":"MOJAVE PIPELINE OPERATING COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-05-20","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2014-06-13","effective_on":"2014-05-20","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in CADIZ, SAN BERNARDINO County, CA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 18725 NATURAL GAS released, $100 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.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-f25bf90773d54a4a74e924df.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-f25bf90773d54a4a74e924df.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-f25bf90773d54a4a74e924df","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 CADIZ, SAN BERNARDINO County, CA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 18725 NATURAL GAS released, $100 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: 20140065.\n\nOperator ID: 840.\n\nReported incident date: 5/20/2014 10:45.\n\nLocation detail: 209\n\nCause detail: THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE\n\nCause detail: TWO KINDER MORGAN (MOJAVE) TECHNICIANS PERFORMING VALVE MAINTENANCE ARRIVED AT CADIZ METER STATION AT 10:45 AM; TECHNICIANS DISCOVERED 1/2-INCH PIPE NIPPLE HAD BROKEN THUS LEAKING NATURAL GAS; TECHNICIANS CONTACTED GAS CONTROL AT 10:55 AM AND BEGAN ISOLATING METER STATION; WITH METER STATION ISOLATED AT 11:05 AM, BROKEN PIPE NIPPLE WAS REMOVED AND 1/2-INCH PLUG WAS INSTALLED; TECHNICIANS RETURNED METER STATION TO SERVICE AT 11:30 AM; THE 1/2-INCH PIPE NIPPLE HAD BEEN INSTALLED TO HOLD AN OPTIONAL 1/2-INCH BALL VALVE WHICH WAS CLOSED AND PLUGGED; NO OTHER APPURTENANCES WERE ATTACHED. TECHNICIANS WERE ON SITE FOR OTHER REASONS, THEREFORE NO COST FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $74,064 reported total cost, $51,216.731 in 1984 dollars, $62,949.025 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":1682}