PSF: Pipeline Accidents: Reported Spills


YEAR	ACCIDENTS	INJURIES	FATALITIES	PROPERTY 2/ DAMAGE ($)	VOLUME OF SPILLS (GAL.)

1970	351	21	4	n / a	22,097,418
1971	310	8	0	n / a	9,805,362
1972	306	16	7	n / a	14,462,700
1973	273	10	7	n / a	15,727,404
1974	256	6	10	n / a	12,127,962
1975	254	17	7	n / a	13,312,614
1976	212	5	4	n / a	10,060,722
1977	237	15	3	n / a	9,403,338
1978	254	10	3	6,093,361	11,779,530
1979	250	13	4	120,152,266	22,900,248
1980	218	15	3	5,419,463	12,005,238
1981	236	32	5	5,226,657	8,588,622
1982	196	6	1	1,478,530	9,214,926
1983	159	9	6	7,028,934	16,020,942
1984	200	19	0	5,408,548	12,008,010
1985	180	18	5	5,132,447	7,065,702
1986	210	32	4	16,077,846	11,877,222
1987	237	20	3	13,140,434	16,625,868
1988	193	19	2	32,414,912	8,332,674
1989	163	38	3	8,813,604	8,473,836
1990	180	7	3	15,720,422	5,219,634
1991	216	9	0	37,788,044	8,423,814
1992	212	38	5	39,146,062	5,756,730
1993	229	10	0	28,873,651	4,905,684
1994	245	1,857	1	62,166,058	6,904,254
1995	188	11	3	32,518,689	4,629,954
1996	194	13	5	81,353,269	6,733,272
1997	171	5	0	42,810,659	8,213,058
1998	153	6	2	62,864,796	6,270,474
1999	168	20	4	87,108,560	7,024,290
2000	147	4	1	145,303,745	4,450,656
2001	128	5	0	25,192,280	4,082,232

TOTAL	6,926	2,337	105	854,818,327	324,504,390

AVERAGE	216	74	3	34,192,733 - 3/	10,140,762

1/ - Source: Annual Report of Pipeline Safety (for years 1978-85), Accident Summary Statistics (1986-01), Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS), U.S. Department of Transportation.

2/ - OPS did not report property damage amounts in years 1970-77.

3/ - Annual average is of totals for years 1978-01.

Source: Friends of the Aquifer, Tallahassee, Florida, April 25, 2002.