Event
- Event ID
- 757
- Quality
- Description
One person was injured in an explosion on the grounds of the refinery. A pickup truck struck a hydrogen gas line and was engulfed in flames. The exact location was a metering station of the pipeline, at the fence line of the plant. The fire was isolated, contained and quickly extinguished. An employee of of the hydrogen supply company suffered burns to his hands. The chemical plant itself was not affected by the fire.
- 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
- pipe (generic)
- Failure mode
- rupture
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
A human error of the driver was probably the ROOT CAUSE, although lack of warning cannot be excluded.
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2020
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical industry
- Sub-application
- Unspecified refinery process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
H2 supply line
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- unknown
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- populated area
- Operational condition
- UNKNOWN
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Post-event summary
No damage to the refinery.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- News
- Reference & weblink
Incidents, Week 42 2006 http://www.saunalahti.fi/ility/PI0642.htm (accessed Jan 2007)
