Event
- Event ID
- 858
- Quality
- Description
Static electricity ignited hydrogen in a rising advertising balloon.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Japan
- Date
- Component involved
- balloon
- Failure mode
- rupture & ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root CAUSE analysis
This case is very similar to the next one (HIAD_859), and comes from thesame source, RISCAD. However, differently as for the event 859, , RISCAD did not attribute the cause to orgnaisational factors. Anyhow, in HIAD, in absence of evidences, the causes remain unkown.
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2020
Facility
- Application
- Other
- Sub-application
- Advertising balloons
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
ballon
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- ambient pressure (around 0.1 MPa)
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- unknown
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- unknown
- Number of injured persons
- unknown
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- RISCAD
- Reference & weblink
Orignal source lost. RISCAD is closed.
