Event
- Event ID
- 454
- Quality
- Description
The HRS canopy was lower than the forecourt canopy. Heavy duty vehicles (HDV) were not noticing the issue and hitting the HRS canopy assuming same height.
The canopy has now been repaired twice, and the HRS operator will take care to raise its height to avoid the repeating of the collision.
No injury or harm to people was caused.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Date
- Component involved
- non-hydrogen component
- Failure mode
- rupture, no ignition
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
The multiple occurrence of the same near miss suggests a ROOT CAUSE a design shortcoming which did not consider the height of the HDV.
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2017
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen refuelling station
- Sub-application
- HRS
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
Canopy
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- populated area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
Lesson Learnt
- Corrective Measures
The canopy has now been repaired twice but the HRS operator will increase its height to avoid a new collision strike.
In-depth data
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount (kg)
- 0
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- Investigation report
- Reference & weblink
Provided to JRC by the operator of the facility (confidential)
