Event
- Event ID
- 934
- Quality
- Description
Release from a compressed storage of an optics component plant
The leak was observed on the hydrogen storage consisting of 19 racks of 16 cylinders each.
Rescue teams set up a security perimeter and a specialized company inspected the leak.
The activity of the establishment were interrupted during the night and resumed the next morning.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- leak no ignition
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Component involved
- CGH2 cylinder(s)
- Failure mode
- rupture, no ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2018
Facility
- Application
- Other
- Sub-application
- Optics component manufacturer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
compressed hydrogen cylinders 19 rack, 16 cylinders each
- 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
References
- Sources categories
- ARIA
- Reference & weblink
Event description in the French database ARIA
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/43425/
(accessed September 2020)
