Event
- Event ID
- 410
- Quality
- Description
The bus drove into the garage and collided with a folded-out safety barrier. The upper corner of the roof was damaged. Also the first hydrogen tank was affected by the collision but without any hydrogen leakage
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Date
- Component involved
- CGH2 tube (trailer)
- Failure mode
- damage, no release
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
The INITIATING CAUSE was a collision between a FCEV bus and a stationary barrier.
The safety barrier was not in the correct position. It was not folded in by the responsible technicians after the previous maintenance work.The ROT CAUSE was a human error.
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2017
Facility
- Application
- Road vehicles
- Sub-application
- FCEV-bus
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
Hydrogen bus, barrier.
- 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
- Unknown
- Location
- populated area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
Replacement of the first hydrogen tank; after the replacement of the hydrogen tank a new safety certificate was issued by the 'TÜV' (Technical control board)
In-depth data
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount (kg)
- 0
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Release pressure [MPa]
- 35
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- Investigation report
- Reference & weblink
Provided to JRC by the operator of the facility (confidential)
