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Fires/Explosions Statistics and Summaries 2006-2010

The Bureau 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. The Bureau classifies Fires/Explosions by the dollar amount of property damage caused by the incident. Classification categories are:

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Catastrophic - destruction of a facility worth greater than $10 million

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Major - property damage greater than $1 million

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Minor - property damage greater than $25,000 but less than or equal $1 million

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Incidental - property damage equal to or less than $25,000
 

OCS Fires/Explosions: 2006-2010
Fires/Explosions 2006 *** 2007 *** 2008 *** 2009 *** 2010 ***
GOM PAC GOM PAC GOM PAC GOM PAC GOM PAC
 Catastrophic  (> $ 10 million damage and
 destruction of a facility)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
 Major  (> $1 million damage) 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
 Minor  (> $25,000 but $ 1million damage) 8 0 6 0 9 0 3 0 5 0
 Incidental  ( $25,000 damage) 122 7 104 8 130 12 130 12 119 4
 Fires / Explosions (TOTALS) 132 7 110 8 139 12 133 12 126 4
 COMBINED TOTAL FOR THE YEAR 139 118 151 145 130

 YTD = Year to date

 NOTE: Some incidents involve both an explosion and a fire.  In these cases, the incident is counted in both categories.

 * * * Effective July 17, 2006, BOEMRE revised the regulations for Incident Reporting.  The regulation did not change the requirement
 to report all fires and explosions.

 SOURCETIMS Database as of 16-Feb-2011

Fire/Explosion Summaries (all inExcel Icon format)

Blue Bullet  Fire/Explosion Summaries, CY 2010 (262 KB Excel)
Blue Bullet  Fire/Explosion Summaries, CY 2009 
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Blue Bullet  Fire/Explosion Summaries, CY 2008 
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Blue Bullet  Fire/Explosion Summaries, CY 2007 
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Blue Bullet  Fire/Explosion Summaries, CY 2006 
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Last Updated: 08/02/2011, 05:07 PM Central Time