Event
- Event ID
- 1105
- Quality
- Description
A truck loaded with hydrogen came off the road on, crashed into a guardrail and overturned on the embankment.
The driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries. No other cars were involved in the accident.
The tanks were almost empty, with only a residual non-quantified amount of hydrogen.
A specialised company was called for the removal of the trailer.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Austria
- 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.
The policy could not determine the cause of loss of control of the trailer. Therefore , in absence of information on driver, the ROOT CAUSE is attributed generically to a human error (wrong manoeuvre).- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 21/06/2024
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
trailer
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- medium to high pressure (10 to 50 MPa)
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- highway or similar
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Property loss (onsite)
- 0
- Post-event summary
The driver was light injured by the crash.
The damage was estimated several 100 000 Euros.- Emergency action
The traffic was diverted and the road remained completely closed until further notice.
A specialist company took care of recovering the hazardous goods.
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
The rollover did not caused hydrogen release. This speak for a sound design of the compressed hydrogen storage system. From the photos does not result any evidence of damage to the tubes. A much more sever test would have been a crash affecting the rear of the tubes.
It is unclear if the statement regarding no leak is based on measurement or on visual inspection of the pressure control system.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- News
- Reference & weblink
Schaebische News
https://www.schwaebische.de/regional/sigmaringen/ostrach/mit-wasserstof…
(accessed June 2024)