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  Fires/Explosions - Statistics and Summaries  2006-2010

MMS requires that all Fires/Explosions be reported. Effective July 17, 2006, MMS revised the regulations for incident reporting. This regulation did not change the reporting requirement for Fires/Explosions. MMS
classifies Fires/Explosions by the dollar amount of property damage caused by the incident. Classification categories are:

  • Catastrophic - destruction of a facility worth greater than $10 million
  • Major - property damage greater than $1 million
  • Minor - property damage greater than $25,000 but less than or equal $1 million
  • Incidental - property damage equal to or less than $25,000
     
OCS Fires/Explosions: 2006-2010
Fires/Explosions 2006 2007  Text Box: YTD
2008
2009 2010
GOM PAC GOM PAC GOM PAC GOM PAC GOM PAC
  Catastrophic (destruction of a facility worth > $10 million) 0 0 0 0 0 0        
  Major (with property damage > $ 1million) 2 0 0 0 1 0        
  Minor (with property damage > $25,000 but < $ 1million) 8 0 6 0 2 0        
  Incidental (with property <= $25,000 damage) 123 7 104 8 75 10        
                     
REGIONAL FIRE/EXPLOSION TOTALS FOR THE YEAR 133 7 110 8 78 10 0 0 0 0
COMBINED FIRE/EXPLOSION TOTALS FOR THE YEAR 140 118 88 0 0
                     
YTD  = Year to date                    
*** Effective July 17, 2006, MMS revised the regulations for Incident Reporting.  This regulation did not change the requirement to report all fires/explosions.
SOURCE:  TIMS Database as of 02-Sep-2008                    

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