Event
- Event ID
- 859
- Quality
- Description
Electric spark ignited hydrogen in a captive advertising balloon.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Japan
- Date
- Component involved
- balloon
- Failure mode
- rupture & ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root CAUSE analysis
The original source (RISCAD) identified the root casue in "Organization factors". it is unclear, however, upon which evidences this conclusion was drawn. Therefore, in HIAD, the casues remain unkown.
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2020
Facility
- Application
- Other
- Sub-application
- Advertising balloons
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
ballon
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- ambient pressure (around 0.1 MPa)
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- unknown
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- unknown
- Number of injured persons
- unknown
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- RISCAD
- Reference & weblink
Orignal source lost. RISCAD is closed.
