Event
- Event ID
- 564
- Quality
- Description
The plant was shutting down and purging was in progress, when trapped hydrogen and methane exploded (air source not reported).
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Component involved
- unknown
- Failure mode
- internal explosion
- Initiating cause
- inadequate or no purge
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/01/2026
Facility
- Application
- Steel and metals industry
- Sub-application
- Steel/iron metallurgy
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
blast furnace
- Process temperature range [C]
- unknown
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- low to medium pressure (below 2 MPa)
- Location type
- Confined
- Location
- unknown
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 3
- Currency
- US$
- Property loss (onsite)
- 200.000
In-depth data
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- Zalosh
- Reference & weblink
Table II - Industrial Incidetns of Appendix A of Zalosh and Short COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HYDROGEN FIRE AND EXPLOSION INCIDENTS Quarterly Report No. 2 for Period December 1, 1977 - February 28, 1978 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6566131 (accessed September 2020)
