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PHMSA Report 20030066
COLORADO INTERSTATE GAS CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2003-07-04
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in LAMAR, BACA County, CO. Reported cause: 16. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $220,000 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: 20030066.
Operator ID: 2564.
Reported incident date: 7/4/2003.
Cause detail: JOINT
Cause detail: INSULATING GASKET ON A FLANGE BY FLANGE 2 IN. TAP VALVE ASSEMBLY AT THE BACA MATER STATION, NEAR LAMAR, CO, FAILED, RESULTING IN A NATURAL GAS RELEASE, AND SUBSEQUENT IGNITION(NO EXPLOSION) DUE TO AN UNKNOWN SOURCE.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — JOINT/FITTING/COMPONENT.
PHMSA indexed costs: $220,000 reported total cost, $142,866.361 in 1984 dollars, $293,471.022 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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