Event
- Event ID
- 53
- Quality
- Description
Hydrogen explosion at plant making sweeteners injured 3 workers
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Finland
- Date
- Component involved
- unknown
- Failure mode
- unknown
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Chemical industry
- Sub-application
- Food production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
unknown
- Location type
- Underground
- Location
- unknown
- Operational condition
- UNKNOWN
- Pre-event occurrences
The explosion occurred at a sweeteners production plant
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 3
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- HySafe
- Reference & weblink
HIAD 1.0 reporting template (Original source unavailable).
