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860-024-0050

Incident Reports

(1) As used in this rule:

(a) "Serious injury to person" means, in the case of an employee, an injury which results in

hospitalization. In the case of a non-employee, "serious injury" means any contact with an

energized high-voltage line, or any incident which results in hospitalization. Treatment in an

emergency room is not hospitalization.

(b) "Serious injury to property" means:

(A) Damage to operator and non-operator property exceeding $100,000; or

(B) In the case of a gas operator, damage to property exceeding $5,000; or

to ESS and non-ESS property exceeding $100,000 or failure of ESS facilities that causes or

contributes to a loss of energy to consumers; or

(D) Damage to property which causes a loss of service to over 500 customers (50 customers in

the case of a gas operator) for over two hours (five hours for an electric operator serving less

than 15,000 customers) except for electric service loss that is restricted to a single feeder line and

results in an outage of less than four hours.

(2) Except as provided in section (5) of this rule, every reporting operator must give immediate

notice by telephone, by facsimile, by electronic mail, or personally to the Commission, of

incidents attended by loss of life or limb, or serious injury to person or property, occurring in

Oregon upon the premises of or directly or indirectly arising from or connected with the

maintenance or operation of a facility.

(3) Except as provided in section (5) of this rule, every reporting operator must, in addition to the

notice given in section (2) of this rule for an incident described in section (2), report in writing to

the Commission within 20 days of the occurrence. In the case of injuries to employees, a copy of

the incident report form that is submitted to Oregon OSHA, Department of Consumer and

Business Services, for reporting incident injuries, will normally suffice for a written report. In

the case of a gas operator, copies of incident or leak reports submitted under 49 CFR Part 191

will normally suffice.

(4) An incident report filed by a public or telecommunications utility in accordance with ORS

654.715 cannot be used as evidence in any action for damages in any suit or action arising out of

any matter mentioned in the report.

(5) A Peoples Utility District (PUD) is exempt from this rule if the PUD agrees, by signing an

agreement, to comply voluntarily with the filing requirements set forth in sections (2) and (3).

(6) Gas operators have additional incident and condition reporting requirements set forth in

OARs 860-024-0020 and 860-024-0021.

PUC Form FM 221 (Rev. 08/07/2015)

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