Event
- Event ID
- 136
- Quality
- Description
An explosion at a hydrogen recovery plant resulted in the injury of 10 people.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- South America
- Country
- Argentina
- Date
- Component involved
- unknown
- Failure mode
- unknown
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical industry
- Sub-application
- Not specified
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 10
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- FireWorld
- Reference & weblink
The link to FireWorld magazine is lost
