Event
- Event ID
- 294
- Quality
- Description
A tube trailer transporting three compressed hydrogen tubes had to perform an emergency manoeuvre to avoid an oncoming vehicle which crossed the centre line. The trailer crashed into a traffic signpost loosening the loading onto the road. A valve was damaged, causing gas to leak.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- release, no ignition
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Japan
- Date
- Component involved
- valve (generic)
- Failure mode
- rupture
- 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
- 30/08/2025
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- H2 delivery to customers
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
CGH2 tube 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
- 0
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- KHK
- Reference & weblink
High Pressure Gas Accident Cases Database of the KHK (High Pressure Gas Safety Association): https://www.khk.or.jp/public_information/incident_investigation/hpg_incident/incident_db.html (accessed May 2025)
