Event
- Event ID
- 852
- Quality
- Description
The truck was carrying cylinders of nitrogen (N2), oxygen (O2), hydrogen (H2) and acetylene on a national road. It struck the right protection, then the concrete-reinforced central division, and finally overturned across the roadway.
The driver was slightly injured, no cylinder was damaged.
Traffic jams are formed in both directions. The presence of motorists on the emergency stop strip slows the arrival of firefighters. Rescuers set up a security perimeter and cut traffic in one direction. Technical teams of the carrier and the charger go to the scene.
Cylinders and cylinder frames were transferred to another vehicle. The truck is raised at 4 pm and traffic is re-established at 5 pm- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Component involved
- CGH2 cylinder(s)
- Failure mode
- damage, no release
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
INITIATING cause was a traffic accident. In absence of information on drivers and driver behaviours, the ROOT CAUSE can be attributed generically to a human error (wrong manoeuvre)
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2020
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 cylinders truck
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
cylinders
- 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
- Post-event summary
The driver is slightly injured, no cylinder is damaged. Traffic jams are formed in both directions of D20
- Emergency action
07:00 The overturns across the roadway near the airport of Marseille-Provence.
The driver is slightly injured, no cylinder is damaged. Traffic jams are formed in both directions.
The presence of motorists on the emergency stop strip slows the arrival of firefighters. Rescuers set up a security perimeter and cut traffic in one direction. Technical teams of the carrier and the charger go to the scene. Cylinders and cylinder frames are transferred to another vehicle.
16:00 The truck is carried away
17:00 Normal traffic conditions are re-established
In-depth data
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount (kg)
- 0
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- ARIA
- Reference & weblink
ARIA data base
event no. 39617
