Event
- Event ID
- 348
- Quality
- Description
An explosion occurred in the glass components of a reactor at a pharmaceutical plant during a batch process. At the time of the accident, the reactor was being hydrogenated. As a result of the explosion, the upper part of the glass components broke, some of the suspended ceiling boards fell off and ceiling light cover glasses were splintered, and one of the inner windows of the explosion wall two metres from the site broke. The accident did not result in any personal injuries.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Finland
- Date
- Component involved
- reactor / oven / furnace / test chamber
- Failure mode
- internal explosion
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root CAUSE analysis
Causes unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Chemical industry
- Sub-application
- Pharmaceutical production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
Reactor, glass, ceiling
- Location type
- Confined
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- Unknown
- Reference & weblink
Source lost
