Event
- Event ID
- 123
- Quality
- Description
The incident took place in a calcium powdered wire manufactory of "Chepetsk Mechanical Plant". Some amount of water found its way into a container a mix of different powders. As a result of the chemical reaction, an evolution of hydrogen occurred, which exploded, ignited by a sparks. The explosion caused 5 injuries and 4 fatalities.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Russia
- Date
- Component involved
- chemical storage tank
- Failure mode
- internal explosion
- Initiating cause
- accidental hydrogen formation
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Chemical industry
- Sub-application
- Ca factory
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
support buildings, equipment
- Location type
- Confined
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 4
- Number of injured persons
- 5
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
- Deflagration
References
- Sources categories
- News
- Reference & weblink
Provided to HIAD 1.0 by HySafe NoE. (Original source unavailable).
