The following is a worldwide list of pipeline accidents. 1958: The Slater Street explosion: A massive explosion rocked the Centertown core of Ottawa at 8:17 am on Saturday, October 25, 1958. As an Ottawa Citizen reporter later described, the scene looked “just like a bombed area in wartime London.”

This list of pipeline accidents in the United States provides access to links for various timeframes, which are sometimes quite extensive.

PHMSA and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) post incident data, and results of investigations, into accidents involving pipelines that carry a variety of products, including natural gas, oil, diesel fuel, gasoline, kerosene, jet fuel, carbon dioxide, and other substances.

Nov 15, 2022 · PHMSA merged the various report formats to create pipeline incident trend lines going back 20 years. The trend links will initially present reports including all data for the incident type. The table below lists the year PHMSA began collecting incident reports by system type.

Jan 2, 2017 · Here are some of the most egregious cases from the past decade. 1. Western North Dakota, near Belfield: Dec. 5, 2016. Just this month, less than 150 miles from Oceti Sakowin Camp, a leak was discovered in the Belle Fourche pipeline.

Apr 18, 2016 · In just 2015 to 2017, there were 12 deaths and 10 injuries reported from natural gas pipelines in the US. Pipeline explosions also cause millions of dollars in damage and evacuations.

Dec 12, 2022 · A small Kansas county became a site of a significant pipeline failure last week as the Keystone Pipeline leaked an estimated 14,000 barrels of crude oil into a creek — the largest spill in its...

Mar 1, 2020 · The following subsections detail the 10 most fatal pipeline accidents through history, covering every pipeline accident that has entailed over 100 deaths. A description of each accident is made, analyzing the most relevant data and circumstances of each case, and, finally, after all the accidents analysis, the lessons learned from each accident ...

To help people visualize how often pipelines fail we have created our “Monthly Incident Dashboard” that allows you to examine failure information state by state.

Nov 15, 2012 · Every year the nations oil and natural gas pipelines suffer hundreds of ruptures and spills. We map major pipeline accidents from 1986 to the present.