Event
- Event ID
- 853
- Quality
- Description
The fire broke out under the cabin of a heavy-duty vehicle transporting industrial gas cylinders (hydrogen, acetylene, helium) close to a paint company.
Firefighters shelter the employees of this company and deploy 2 water lances.
The fire was extinguished after 3 hours, the cabin was destroyed but the load was intact.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- n.a.
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Component involved
- CGH2 cylinder(s)
- Failure mode
- damage, no release
- Initiating cause
- conventional component failure (fire)
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2020
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 cylinders truck
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
cylinders
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- medium to high pressure (10 to 50 MPa)
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- countryside or desert
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
the cabin of the truck was destroyed but the load (gas cylinders) was intact.
- Emergency action
11:00 fire starts
Firefighters shelter the employees of this company and deploy 2 water lances.
14:00 Fire extinguished, the cabin was destroyed but the load was intact.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- ARIA
- Reference & weblink
ARIA data base
event no. 41357
