Event
- Event ID
- 274
- Quality
- Description
Hydrogen leak occurred from temporary pipe work during transfer of hydrogen between permanent and emergency cylinders. Ignition source unknown. Resultant explosion caused serious burns to one employee and fire damage to the area local to the explosion.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Date
- Component involved
- piping (generic)
- Failure mode
- internal leak
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root CAUSE analysis
INITIATING cause was the leak at a hydrogen connection line.
Nothing can be said on the root cause.- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen stationary storage
- Sub-application
- GH2 storage
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
pipe
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- medium to high pressure (10 to 50 MPa)
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- unknown
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Emergency action
Not known
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- HSE
- Reference & weblink
Event description provided by HSE, original source confidential
