Event
- Event ID
- 111
- Quality
- Description
A car crashed into a liquid hydrogen tanker. The piping and the inner and outer shell of the liquid hydrogen tanker were destroyed, resulting in a fire.
Nothing is reported on the quantity of hydrogen released and the type of fire, if it was a liquid spill or a gaseous release, if an escalation occurred and which type of emergency management strategy was put in place.
- 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
- LH2 tank (road tanker)
- Failure mode
- rupture
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
The INITIATING was the impact on the LH2 tank by the car crash.
In absence of information on driving conditions, the ROOT CAUSE is attributed generically to a human error (wrong manoeuvre).
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 20/01/2025
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- H2 delivery to customers
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
LH2 road 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
- highway or similar
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 2
- Currency
- US$
- Property loss (onsite)
- 128.000
In-depth data
- Release type
- liquid
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Flame type
References
- Sources categories
- Zalosh
- Reference & weblink
Extract from Table III of Appendix A of Zalosh and Short COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HYDROGEN FIRE AND EXPLOSION INCIDENTS Quarterly Report No. 2 for Period December 1, 1977 - February 28, 1978 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6566131 (accessed September 2020)
Event incident I-1972100100 of the PHMSA database (Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, 1996), https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/analytics/saw.dll?Portalpages (accessed September 2024)
