Event
- Event ID
- 146
- Quality
- Description
Hydrogen gas explosion blew the lid off a heavy container at a heat treatment and brazing plant, crushing one workers hand.
- 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
- unknown
- Failure mode
- unknown
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Steel and metals industry
- Sub-application
- generic metal processing
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
metals heat treatment unit
- Process temperature range [C]
- Very high temperature (500°C to 1000°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- ambient pressure (around 0.1 MPa)
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 1
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- Unknown
- Reference & weblink
source lost
