Event
- Event ID
- 162
- Quality
- Description
Eighteen hydrogen gas cylinders carried by a truck exploded, killing at least three people.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Viet Nam
- Date
- Component involved
- CGH2 cylinder(s)
- Failure mode
- unknown
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 cylinders truck
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
hydrogen gas cylinders
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
- UNKNOWN
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 3
- Number of injured persons
- 0
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- News
- Reference & weblink
Incidents, Week 41 2006, at http://www.saunalahti.fi/ility/PI0641.htm
(link unvailable)