Event
- Event ID
- 1069
- Quality
- Description
The incident occurred at company producing specialised products for aerospace and aero power applications. An employee was operating an induction brazing machine under hydrogen atmosphere when an explosion occurred.
- 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
- reactor / oven / furnace / test chamber
- Failure mode
- rupture
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/07/2024
Facility
- Application
- Other
- Sub-application
- aerospace/aviation components production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
metals brazing
- Process temperature range [C]
- Very high temperature (500°C to 1000°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- ambient pressure (around 0.1 MPa)
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- airport or airborne
- Operational condition
- Description of the facility/unit/process/substances
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCESS
Hydrogen is used to avoid surface oxidation when brazing metallic parts at high temperature
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Post-event summary
The employee was hospitalized for treatment of burns.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- OHSA
- Reference & weblink
OHSA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) news of 16 Feb 2022
https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/accidentsearch.accident_detail?id=143791…
(accessed July 2023)
