Event
- Event ID
- 1118
- Quality
- Description
The driver lost control of vehicle and ran off the highway into a wooded area, turning on the right side. The front vessel pressure gauge was knocked off the trailer tank. A small amount of gaseous hydrogen was vented until the gauge shut off valve was closed.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- release, no ignition
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Component involved
- gauge/instrument
- Failure mode
- rupture
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
INITIATING CAUSE was a traffic accident. In absence of information on driver, the ROOT CAUSE is attributed generically to a human error (wrong manoeuvre).
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 09/09/2024
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- H2 delivery to customers
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
LH2 road tanker
- Process temperature range [C]
- cryogenic temperature (below -50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- low to medium pressure (below 2 MPa)
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- highway or similar
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
Damage after crash
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Currency
- US$
- Property loss (onsite)
- 95.010
- Post-event summary
The major loss was probably related to the trailer/truck crash damages. Approximately 200 kg of hydrogen were released.
- Emergency action
The emergency was quickly ended by closing the valve connecting the pressure gauge and the LH2 tank. Although not stated, it can be assumed that this operation was performed by the driver.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Released amount (kg)
- 200.58970476911
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- PHMSA
- Reference & weblink
Incident I-2002101097 of the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration PHMSA: https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/analytics/saw.dll?Portalpages&PortalPath=%2Fshared%2FPublic%20Website%20Pages%2F_portal%2FHazmat%20Incident%20Report%20Search (accessed September 2024)
