Event
- Event ID
- 964
- Quality
- Description
Hydrogen was accidentally produced inside the sealed container containing a used battery. The gas, along 6 days deformed the container. Firefighters equipped with breathing apparatus opened the container remotely triggering a considerable explosion.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Component involved
- battery
- Failure mode
- rupture & ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root CAUSE analysis
The ARIA report does not identifies any cause. It is known that lead-acid batteries and metals batteries can accidentally release gaseous hydrogen, and that used, aged batteries run a higher risk to fail. Sealing such a battery in a container without monitoring and ventilation was a ill-decision.
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2018
Facility
- Application
- Electrical, electronics and micro-electronics industry
- Sub-application
- electrochemical battery storage
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
electrochemical battery system
- Location type
- Confined
- Location
- populated area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Emergency action
The firefighter released the hydrogen remotely.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- ARIA
- Reference & weblink
Event description in the French database ARIA
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/28822/
(accessed October 2020)
