Event
- Event ID
- 157
- Quality
- Description
The explosion involving hydrogen gas knocked a 36-by-70-foot hole in the roof of the plant. Officials said the gas was formed when chemicals mixed in the plant's waste treatment unit.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Component involved
- chemical storage tank (waste)
- Failure mode
- internal explosion
- Initiating cause
- accidental hydrogen formation
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Electrical, electronics and micro-electronics industry
- Sub-application
- electrical and/or electronic components production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
chemical waste storage & treatment
- 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
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- unknown
- Number of injured persons
- unknown
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- gas mixture
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- FireWorld
- Reference & weblink
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