Event
- Event ID
- 230
- Quality
- Description
A pinhole leak in the discharge hose of a portable tank containing sodium hydride reacted with water, and released hydrogen that ignited and exploded at a waste management plant.
- 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
- hose (generic)
- Failure mode
- leak & ignition
- Initiating cause
- accidental hydrogen formation
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Chemical industry
- Sub-application
- waste management
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
hose, portable tank
- Location type
- Unknown
- 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
- FireWorld
- Reference & weblink
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