COLUMBIA GAS OF OHIO INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-01-23

Gas transmission and gathering incident in ORIENT, PICKAWAY County, OH. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 30 NATURAL GAS released, $300,000 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: 20140048.

Operator ID: 2596.

Reported incident date: 1/23/2014 15:09.

Location detail: VALVE C-2996

Cause detail: DAMAGE BY CAR, TRUCK, OR OTHER MOTORIZED VEHICLE/EQUIPMENT NOT ENGAGED IN EXCAVATION

Cause detail: ON 1/23/14, COLUMBIA GAS OF OHIO, INC. ( COLUMBIA) RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE PICKAWAY COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT NOTIFYING COLUMBIA THAT A CAR WHICH HAD LOST CONTROL AND VEERED OFF THE ROADWAY, HAD STRUCK THE ABOVE GROUND OPERATOR FOR A VALVE ON THE COLUMBIA SOUTHERN SUPPLY LINE IN ORIENT, OHIO. COLUMBIA FIELD PERSONNEL PROMPTLY RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AND FOUND THE VALVE OPERATOR DAMAGED AND A SMALL NON-HAZARDOUS LEAK ON VALVE C2996. SINCE THE TIME OF THE DAMAGE, COLUMBIA HAS EXCAVATED THE VALVE AND HAS WORKED WITH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL VALVE EXPERTS TO DETERMINE IF REPAIRING THE VALVE IS POSSIBLE. COLUMBIA HAD BEEN MONITORING THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS VALVE REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT AND DETERMINED ON APRIL 10, 2014 THAT VALVE COULD NOT BE REPAIRED AND THAT THE REPLACEMENT COSTS WOULD EXCEED CRITERIA IN 191.3. PLEASE CONSIDER THIS REPORT FINAL.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE — VEHICLE NOT ENGAGED IN EXCAVATION.

PHMSA indexed costs: $301,128 reported total cost, $152,821.398 in 1984 dollars, $376,242.729 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.