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Pipeline Accident Report - National Fuel Gas Company, Natural Gas Explosion and Fire, Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1985
At 2:40 a.m., on February 22, 1985, a police patrolman on routine patrol smelled strong natural gas odors. Before the serviceman arrived at the site of the reported leak, a tavern and a connecting building exploded and burned, killing two persons. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the gas company's failure to understand the limitations of the restraining-type coupling in holding plastic pipe during thermal contraction, which led to the pullout of a 6-inch-diameter, polyethylene plastic gas main from its coupling. The pullout allowed natural gas under 50-psig pressure to escape, to migrate through the soil, to accumulate in two nearby buildings, and to ignite from an undetermined source.
Pipeline Accident Report - National Fuel Gas Company, Natural Gas Explosion and Fire, Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1985
At 2:40 a.m., on February 22, 1985, a police patrolman on routine patrol smelled strong natural gas odors. Before the serviceman arrived at the site of the reported leak, a tavern and a connecting building exploded and burned, killing two persons. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the gas company's failure to understand the limitations of the restraining-type coupling in holding plastic pipe during thermal contraction, which led to the pullout of a 6-inch-diameter, polyethylene plastic gas main from its coupling. The pullout allowed natural gas under 50-psig pressure to escape, to migrate through the soil, to accumulate in two nearby buildings, and to ignite from an undetermined source.
Pipeline Accident Report - National Fuel Gas Company, Natural Gas Explosion and Fire, Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1985
1985
32 pages
Report
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English