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This report is a sub-report of the New Mexico Significant Incident and Mileage Overview report. As such, it represents Significant Incidents (A) only over the time period and pipeline system specified.

The data source for this table is the PHMSA Flagged Incident File. (1)

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• Gas Transmission
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• Gas Distribution

New Mexico All Pipeline Systems: Significant Incident Details: 2012

Reported Cause of Incident (B)	Number (C)	%	Fatalities	Injuries	Property Damage (D) (E)	% of Property Damage
MAT'L/WELD/EQUIP FAILURE
PUMP/COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT	1	33.3%	0	0	$22,582	4.6%
Sub Total	1	33.3%	0	0	$22,582	4.6%
ALL OTHER CAUSES
UNKNOWN CAUSE	2	66.6%	0	1	$462,793	95.3%
Sub Total	2	66.6%	0	1	$462,793	95.3%
Totals	3	100.0%	0	1	$485,375	100.0%

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• Onshore Only
• Offshore Only

New Mexico Hazardous Liquid: Significant Incident Details: 2012

Reported Cause of Incident (B)	Number	%	Fatalities	Injuries	Property Damage (D) (E)	% of Property Damage
MAT'L/WELD/EQUIP FAILURE
PUMP/COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT	1	100.0%	0	0	$22,582	100.0%
Sub Total	1	100.0%	0	0	$22,582	100.0%
Totals	1	100.0%	0	0	$22,582	100.0%

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New Mexico Hazardous Liquid Onshore: Significant Incident Details: 2012

Reported Cause of Incident (B)	Number	%	Fatalities	Injuries	Property Damage (D) (E)	% of Property Damage
MAT'L/WELD/EQUIP FAILURE
PUMP/COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT	1	100.0%	0	0	$22,582	100.0%
Sub Total	1	100.0%	0	0	$22,582	100.0%
Totals	1	100.0%	0	0	$22,582	100.0%

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New Mexico Gas Distribution: Significant Incident Details: 2012

Reported Cause of Incident (B)	Number (C)	%	Fatalities	Injuries	Property Damage (D) (E)	% of Property Damage
ALL OTHER CAUSES
UNKNOWN CAUSE	2	100.0%	0	1	$462,793	100.0%
Sub Total	2	100.0%	0	1	$462,793	100.0%
Totals	2	100.0%	0	1	$462,793	100.0%

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Notes

1. Significant Incidents are those incidents reported by pipeline operators when any of the following conditions are met: 1) Fatality or injury requiring in-patient hospitalization. 2) $50,000 or more in total costs, measured in 1984 dollars. 3) Highly volatile liquid releases of 5 barrels or more or other liquid releases of 50 barrels or more. 4) Liquid releases resulting in an unintentional fire or explosion. Serious incidents, a subset of Significant Incidents, are incidents which involve a fatality or injury requiring in-patient hospitalization.
2. PHMSA has gathered increasingly targeted incident cause data over time. As such, the available reportable categories of cause (eg: Internal/External Corrosion vs Corrosion in general) have increased over time. This report spans time periods over which the reportable cause categories have changed. The cause categories in this report should be taken as general and not specific for years prior to 2002 for Liquid and Gas Transmission, and prior to 2004 for Gas Distribution.
3. Gas Distribution incidents where fire/explosion was the primary cause of failure, such as a house fire that subsequently resulted in - but was not caused by - a distribution line failure are excluded from 2004 onward. This exclusion has not been applied in years prior to 2004 due to difficulty in identifying these types of events with the older report formats.
4. The costs for incidents prior to 2012 are presented in 2012 dollars. Cost of Gas lost is indexed via the Energy Information Administration, Natural Gas City Gate Prices. All other costs are adjusted via the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Government Printing Office inflation values.
5. For years 2002 and later, property damage is estimated as the sum of all public and private costs reported in the 30-day incident report. For years prior to 2002, accident report forms did not include a breakdown of public and private costs so property damage for these years is the reported total property damage field in the report.

Sources

1. PHMSA Flagged Incidents File - April 30, 2013. Note: Incidents occurring up to 30 days prior the Incident File source date may not appear in these reports due to the 30-day reporting period allowed by PHMSA regulation.

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