Rethinking PHMSA Incident Data Through Detection Pathways
Rethinking PHMSA Incident Data Through Detection Pathways
PHMSA's pipeline incident databases are widely used to benchmark safety performance and assess trends. A common assumption is that incident counts are straightforward proxies for how often pipelines fail. In practice, every record has passed through two filters: the event had to be detected, and the detected event had to cross a reporting threshold...