Event
- Event ID
- 586
- Quality
- Description
A road transportation incident. A road tanker of hydrogen overturned and caught fire.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Date
- Component involved
- LH2 tank (road tanker)
- Failure mode
- rupture & ignition
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
ROOT CAUSE: loss of control of the vehicle
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2020
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
road 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
Overturn, road incidents
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
fire
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- News
- Reference & weblink
EVENING GAZETTE, 1976, 29 SEP.
