Event
- Event ID
- 948
- Quality
- Description
A truck driver carrying compressed gas cylinders loaded on pallets stopped on the emergency stop lane of a highway after a tyre burst. The gases transported were: 120 m³ of oxygen, 24 acetylene cylinders, 106.80 m³ of hydrogen, 120 m³ of nitrogen, and 3.6 m³ of B20 balloon gas.
Seeing smoke from an axle, the driver of the vehicle uncoupled and moved the tractor away and warned the emergency services. Firemen were called to stop the fire: they extinguished the fire kept cooled the gas bottles and extinguished the fire two and a half hours later.
The gas pallets were transferred to another vehicle.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Component involved
- CGH2 cylinder(s)
- Failure mode
- damage, no release
- Initiating cause
- conventional component failure (fire-tyres)
- Root CAUSE analysis
The INITIATING CAUSE of the fire was probably the failure of a equipment that Caused one
axle of the trailer to heat up.- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2018
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
- highway or similar
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
No gas release occurred. The truck was completely lost..
- Emergency action
Police and highway patrol interrupted traffic in both directions and establish a security perimeter. The prefecture was informed, firemen were called to stop the fire, which was brought under control two and a half hours later. The traffic was back on the road six hours after the start.
In-depth data
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount (kg)
- 0
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Release pressure [MPa]
- 20
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- ARIA
- Reference & weblink
Event description in the French database ARIA
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/39090_en/?lang=…
(accessed October 2020)
