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Explosion at a sweetener plant

Event

Event ID
53
Quality
Description

Hydrogen explosion at plant making sweeteners injured 3 workers

Event Initiating system
Classification of the physical effects
Hydrogen Release and Ignition
Nature of the consequences
Macro-region
Europe
Country
Finland
Date
Component involved
unknown
Failure mode
unknown
Initiating cause
unknown
Root causes
Unknown
Date entry in HIAD
28/02/2009

Facility

Application
Chemical industry
Sub-application
Food production
Hydrogen supply chain stage
All components affected

unknown

Location type
Underground
Location
unknown
Operational condition
UNKNOWN
Pre-event occurrences

The explosion occurred at a sweeteners production plant

Emergency & Consequences

Number of fatalities
0
Number of injured persons
3

In-depth data

Release type
gas
Involved substances (% vol)
H2 100%
Probable IGNITION SOURCE
Explosion type

References

Sources categories
HySafe
Reference & weblink

HIAD 1.0 reporting template (Original source unavailable).