Event
- Event ID
- 298
- Quality
- Description
A truck was traveling on a highway carrying three hydrogen pallets. When trying to pass a vehicle ahead, the driver moved too far to the right, causing the wheels to hitting a snow-covered roadside ditch. The vehicle lost balance and overturn. One of the cartridges fell due to the impact, and both the vehicle and the cartridge were burned.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Japan
- Date
- Component involved
- valve (generic)
- Failure mode
- rupture & ignition
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
The INITIATING was the driver losing control of the truck.
The ROOT CAUSE was not having properly secured and protected the cylinders.- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 30/08/2025
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 cylinders truck
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
valve, cylinders, pallets
- 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
- Open
- Location
- highway or similar
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- KHK
- Reference & weblink
High Pressure Gas Accident Cases Database of the KHK (High Pressure Gas Safety Association):
https://www.khk.or.jp/public_information/incident_investigation/hpg_inc…
(accessed May 2025)
