PHMSA Report 20140055
PHMSA Report 20140055
Gas transmission and gathering incident in PASCAGOULA, JACKSON County, MS. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 15 NATURAL GAS released, $78,688 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: 20140055.
Operator ID: 31728.
Reported incident date: 4/25/2014 9:30.
Location detail: 15.85
Cause detail: DESIGN-, CONSTRUCTION-, INSTALLATION-, OR FABRICATION-RELATED
Cause detail: DURING LINE PATROL, TECHNICIAN DISCOVERED LEAK. IT WAS REPORTED TO MANAGEMENT, THE PRESSURE WAS LOWERED BY 20% AND PERSONNEL TOOK APPROPRIATE ACTIONS TO ISOLATE THE AREA. PLANS WERE MADE AND EXECUTED TO TO REPAIR LEAK AND LINE WAS RETURNED TO NORMAL OPERATION.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION OR FABRICATION-RELATED.
PHMSA indexed costs: $80,313 reported total cost, $40,841.312 in 1984 dollars, $100,166.991 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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