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PHMSA Report 20150035
CENTERPOINT ENERGY RESOURCES CORP., DBA CENTERPOINT ENERGY MINNESOTA GAS — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-02-19
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in BLOOMINGTON, HENNEPIN County, MN. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 10 NATURAL GAS released, $37,859 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: 20150035.
Operator ID: 12350.
Reported incident date: 2/19/2015 9:37.
Location detail: 131+71
Cause detail: NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE
Cause detail: APPARENT CAUSE OF LEAK WAS A COUPLING GASKET DUE TO FROST LEVELS/ MOVEMENT. A GAS ODOR WAS REPORTED BY A RESIDENT IN THE AREA. CENTERPOINT ENERGY PERSONNEL RESPONDED AND FOUND A LEAK ON THE GASKET OF A STYLE 38 DRESSER COUPLING. THE SITE WAS EXCAVATED AND A WELDED COVER SLEEVE WAS INSTALLED OVER THE GASKET. THE INSTALLATION WAS COMPLETED AT 21:59 ON 2/30/15.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE.
PHMSA indexed costs: $54,566 reported total cost, $27,967.187 in 1984 dollars, $67,278.466 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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