Event
- Event ID
- 716
- Quality
- Description
A liquid hydrogen trailer-tractor was traveling north on a highway, when the traffic started backing up. The driver put on flashers to warn other motorists to slow down. Nevertheless, a second vehicles struck the trailer in the rear causing severe damage to it. The impact caused the second vehicle to burn at the scene. There were no releases of any product from the LH2 trailer.
- 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
- CGH2 tube (trailer)
- Failure mode
- damage, no release
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
INITIATING CAUSE was a traffic accident. In absence of information on drivers and driver behaviours, the ROOT CAUSE can be attributed generically to a human error (wrong manoeuvre), without participation of the hydrogen system.
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 30/11/2024
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
rear of the LH2 trailer
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- low to medium pressure (below 2 MPa)
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- highway or similar
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Currency
- US$
- Property loss (onsite)
- 200.000
- Post-event summary
Trailer rear was heavily damage, there was no hydrogen release
In-depth data
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount (kg)
- 0
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Release pressure [MPa]
- 0.42
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- PHMSA
- Reference & weblink
Incident E-2015120272 of the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration PHMSA:
https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/analytics/saw.dll?Portalpages&PortalPath=%…
(accessed September 2024)
