Event
- Event ID
- 1171
- Quality
- Description
hydrogen gas cylinder explosion and subsequent fire in an electrical products company. 3 fatalities and 8 injuries.
[Note of the validator: while the majority of the news report as cause the failure of a hydrogen cylinder, few report is as boiler explosion].- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- India
- Date
- Component involved
- CGH2 cylinder(s)
- Failure mode
- rupture & ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 30/04/2025
Facility
- Application
- Electrical, electronics and micro-electronics industry
- Sub-application
- electrical components production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
hydtreon cylinder
- Location type
- Confined
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
- UNKNOWN
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 3
- Number of injured persons
- 8
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- News
- Reference & weblink
Online news of Time of India:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/3-killed-8-hurt-in-naig…
(accesed April 2025)Mentioned also by Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_safety#cite_note-88
(accessed Apirl 2025)
