Event
- Event ID
- 479
- Quality
- Description
Traffic accident with heavy rain.
Four persons were killed when a pickup track collided head-on with a liquid hydrogen tanker in heavy rain.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Component involved
- LH2 tank (road tanker)
- Failure mode
- damage, no release
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
The ROOT CAUSE of the crash was a human error, without participation of the hydrogen system. CONTRIBUTING was a harsh environmental condition, with heavy rain.
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2017
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
LH2 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
- Pre-event occurrences
Traffic accident with heavy rain
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 4
- Number of injured persons
- 0
In-depth data
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount (kg)
- 0
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- News
- Reference & weblink
News Journal, 27 November 1970.
http://www.newspaperarchive.com
