Event
- Event ID
- 198
- Quality
- Description
A fire on a pipe providing hydrogen to a a refinery, causing a light injury to a worker.
Company and local fire departments intervened. They were able to extinguish the fire in 2.30 h.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Component involved
- pipe (generic)
- Failure mode
- leak & ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2021
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical industry
- Sub-application
- Plastics production process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
pipeline
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
- UNKNOWN
- Description of the facility/unit/process/substances
According to the ICHEME report, the facility produced cumene (isopropylbenzene) a colorless, flammable aromatic hydrocarbon (C9H12) primarily used to produce plastics, acetone, phenol, etc.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Post-event summary
The injured worker was assisted on site, his injuries were minor.
Traffic on a highway nearby was stopped for 90 minutes.- Emergency action
Rescue team from the refinery and from outside intervened and extinguished the fire within 2h30.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- ARIA
- Reference & weblink
Event no. 18179 of the French database ARIA
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/18179/
(accessed October 2020)Event description extracted from the UK database ICHEME in PDF
https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/
(accessed Aug 2023)
