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There are more than 2.5 million miles of oil and gas pipelines in the United States. Approximately 900 failures occurred on hazardous liquid pipelines from 2002 to 2003, and 9% of these failures were attributed to damages due to natural force, which included lightning strikes, among other naturally occurring events. This paper provides a case history in which failure analysis was applied to determine...