Human error increasingly a factor in pipeline leaks: data

Human error increasingly a factor in pipeline leaks: data 

By Ian Bickis, The Canadian Press (Jan 29, 2017) – “Pipelines installed in the U.S. in the past five years have the highest rate of failure of any built since the 1920s, and human error is partially to blame, said Carl Weimer, executive director of the Washington-based Pipeline Safety Trust. ‘A lot of new pipelines being put in the ground just aren’t being installed right, or things don’t get tightened up quite enough, so within the first year or two things fail,’ said Weimer.”