Event
- Event ID
- 997
- Quality
- Description
the commercial vehicle was traveling when the two-person crew noticed what appeared to be smoke emitting from the tanker trailer. The crew called 911 and safely pulled to the side of the road
Fire brigade, law enforcement and Department of Transportation personnel then escorted the vehicle to a safe location near a University main campus.The hazard response team entered in contact with the transportation company and left the tanker depressurizing and off-gassing till it was safe for it to further travel.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- leak no ignition
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Component involved
- valve (generic)
- Failure mode
- rupture, no ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2024
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
liquid hydrogen tanker
- Process temperature range [C]
- cryogenic temperature (below -50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- low to medium pressure (below 2 MPa)
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- highway or similar
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release pressure [MPa]
- 1
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- News
- Reference & weblink
Documents with texts and pictures from the two sources:
https://www.krwg.org/regional/2021-04-01/las-cruces-hazmat-response-tea…https://eu.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2021/04/01/25-near-10-closed-while…
