Event
- Event ID
- 72
- Quality
- Description
An hydrogen explosion occurred at a railway station during shunting. Two rail cars collided, one ruptured. Nothing further is known. The following explosion was classified as BLEVE (boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions).
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Component involved
- LH2 tank (road tanker)
- Failure mode
- rupture
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
The INITIATING CAUSE was the collision between two rail cars The ROOT CAUSE is unknown
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 30/05/2025
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- H2 delivery to customers
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
LH2 rail tanker
- Process temperature range [C]
- cryogenic temperature (below -50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- low to medium pressure (below 2 MPa)
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- railway or train station
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 1
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
The only known fact tis that the ' car reptured' . It is to be assumed that it was a total loss.
In-depth data
- Release type
- liquid
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- Scientific article
- Reference & weblink
Palle Haastrup and Lars.Brockhoff Severity of accidents with hazardous materials - A comparison between transportation and fixed installations J. Loss Prevention Process Ind., 13 (990), 395-405
WIKIPEDIA page 'List of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor_explosions (accessed June 2025)
