Emergency Reporting

Electric Utilities must report any incident, within two hours during working hours and four hours outside of working hours, that is attributable or allegedly attributable to utility-owned facilities, and which results in:

• Fatality or personal injury requiring in-patient hospitalization;
  
• Significant public attention and/or media coverage; or
  
• Property damage to the utility or others is above $50,000.
  

Deadlines:

• Notification to CPUC within 2 hours of learning of incident (within 4 hours if after hours);
• Utility follow-up with an email or fax update within 24 hours; and
  
• Full report due at 20 days.
  

See excerpt from Appendix B to D.06-04-055.

Gas Utilities must report, within two hours during working hours and four hours outside of working hours, incidents which involve the release of gas that result in:

• Fatality or personal injury requiring in-patient hospitalization;
• Significant public attention or media coverage; or
• Damage to property of the utility, including loss of gas, or others, or both, is above $50,000.

Utility should follow up with a more comprehensive report on the designated form within 30 days. See excerpts from GO 112-E and CFR 49 § 191.9.

Major Electric outages must be reported.

• See excerpt from GO 166.

Generating Asset Owners must report, within 24 hours of its occurrence:

• Safety-related incidents that result in death;
• Injury or illness requiring overnight hospitalization;
• Presence of identified media representation (with a known market); and
• A report to Cal/OSHA, OSHA, or other regulatory agency; or damage to the property of the Generating Asset Owner or another person of more than $50,000.  See excerpt from GO 167-B.

View information on whistleblowing or file a complaint online.

You can report unsafe conditions to the CPUC by calling the whistleblower hotline at 1-800-649-7570 or by sending an email to safetyhotline@cpuc.ca.gov.