- Author
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National Transportation Safety Board
- Title
- Pipeline Accident Report. Liquid Propane Pipeline Rupture and Fire, Texas Eastern Products Pipeline Company, North Blenheim, New York, March 13, 1990. Adopted: June 11, 1991.
- Coporate
- National Transportation Safety Board, Washington, DC
- Report
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NTSB/PAR-01/01,
June 11, 1991,
71 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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liquid propane
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pipelines
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explosions
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safety
- Abstract
- This report explains the Texas Eastern Products Pipeline Company pipe rupture, subsequent release of propane, and resultant explosion and fire at North Blenheim, New York, on March 13, 1990. The safety issues discussed in the report are pipeline employee qualification and training requirements; procedures to safely move pressurized pipe, especially those manufactured from steel with a high ductile-to-brittle transition temperature; pipeline monitoring requirements for detecting the existence and location of failed pipeline segments; valve requirements for rapidly shutting down failed pipeline segments; and public education and emergency preparedness liaison requirements. The National Transportaion Safety Board made safety recommendations addressing these issues to the Research and Special Programs Administration of the U. S. Department of Transportation, the Texas Eastern Products Pipeline Company, the American Petroleum Institute, the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, and the American Gas Association.