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PHMSA Report 19990105
EQUILON PIPELINE COMPANY LLC — Hazardous liquid — incident on 1999-06-08
Current as of 1999-06-08 Government source
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Hazardous liquid incident in KERN County, CA. Reported cause: OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 670 CRUDE OIL released, $10,000 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: 19990105.
Operator ID: 31174.
Reported incident date: 19990608.
Location detail: 1.9 MI., NW MOCAL ROAD & SHELL ROAD, .3 E OF MOCAL, SEC 26, T31S-R22W
Cause detail: DAMAGE BY OTHERS
Cause detail: THIRD PARTY HAD A SMALL SPILL AROUND THEIR WELLHEAD AND WAS SCRAPING UP FRESH DIRT TO REPLACE THE STAINED SOIL. UNFORTUNATELY THEY DID NOT REALIZE THE SPOT THEY HAD CHOSEN TO TAKE THE DIRT FROM WAS DIRECTLY ON TOP OF OUR LINE. LINE MARKERS WERE PRESENT.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.
PHMSA indexed costs: $10,000 reported total cost, $6,898.494 in 1984 dollars, $16,988.867 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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