Event
- Event ID
- 665
- Quality
- Description
A leak of a flammable mixture of hydrocarbons and hydrogen from a ruptured pipeline caused an explosion and fire, killing one person and injuring forty six. Investigations into the incident found that emergency procedures were not followed.
- 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
- pipe (generic)
- Failure mode
- rupture & ignition
- Initiating cause
- material degradation (generic)
- Root CAUSE analysis
The INITIATING CAUSE was the rupture of a pipeline releasing a mixture of hydrocarbon and hydrogen, for unreported cause.
The ROOT CAUSE could be attributed to failure in following the existing procedures.
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2020
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical industry
- Sub-application
- Pipeline
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
Pipeline
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 1
- Number of injured persons
- 46
- Post-event summary
One fatality and forty six injured persons.
In-depth data
- Release type
- Gas-liquid mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2,
hydrocarbons - Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- ICHEME
- Reference & weblink
Event nr 11496 of the UK database ICHEME in PDF.
https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/
(accessed October 2020)The primary source was in CHEMICAL HAZARDS IN INDUSTRY, JUNE 1999 which is no more available.
