Event
- Event ID
- 668
- Quality
- Description
The incident occurred at a plant producing sodium aluminium hydride. A hydrogen leak at pump resulted in a fire and an explosion.
- 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
- compressor / booster / pump
- Failure mode
- leak & ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/01/2026
Facility
- Application
- Chemical industry
- Sub-application
- sodium aluminium hydride
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Location type
- Confined
- Location
- unknown
- Operational condition
- Description of the facility/unit/process/substances
” Sodium aluminium hydride or sodium alanate (NaAlH4) is an inorganic compound used as a reagent for the chemical synthesis of organic compounds. It is prepared from the elements under high pressures of H2 at 200 °C using a catalyst:
Na + Al + 2 H2 → NaAlH4 ”
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_aluminium_hydride]
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Currency
- US$
- Property loss (onsite)
- 150.000
In-depth data
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- Zalosh
- Reference & weblink
Table II - Industrial Incidents 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)Extract from Table II - Industrial Incidents 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)
