Since 1986, pipeline accidents have killed more than 500 people, injured over 4,000, and cost nearly seven billion dollars in property damages. Using government data, ProPublica has mapped thousands of these incidents in a new interactive news application, which provides detailed information about the cause and costs of reported incidents going back nearly three decades.
![pipeline_line_map-630x420[1]](https://lwvccpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/pipeline_line_map-630x4201-100x100.gif "Pipelines Explained: How Safe are America’s 2.5 Million Miles of Pipelines?")