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Fire on a hydrogen tanker

Event

Event ID
39
Quality
Description

the hazmat crews evacuated the workers at the Atmel building and established a safe zone. The crews used liquid nitrogen. The biggest danger was the possibility of an explosion.

Event Initiating system
Classification of the physical effects
Hydrogen Release and Ignition
Nature of the consequences
fire
Macro-region
North America
Country
United States
Date
Component involved
unknown
Failure mode
unknown
Initiating cause
unknown
Root causes
Unknown
Date entry in HIAD
28/02/2009

Facility

Application
Other
Sub-application
Semi-conductors manufacturer
Hydrogen supply chain stage
All components affected

unknown

Location type
Unknown
Location
highway or similar
Operational condition
UNKNOWN

Emergency & Consequences

Number of fatalities
0
Number of injured persons
1

In-depth data

Release type
gas
Involved substances (% vol)
H2 100%
Probable IGNITION SOURCE

References

Sources categories
Unknown
Reference & weblink

Source lost