Event
- Event ID
- 1094
- Quality
- Description
The incident occurred at a plant manufacturing polymer batteries, audio and GPS systems.
As consequence of the great tohokyu earthquake and tsunami, a pipe of a hydrogen tank started leaking, causing an explosion followed by a fire . Two injuries. And damages to the neighbourhood buildings, machinery, equipment.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Japan
- Date
- Component involved
- pipe (generic)
- Failure mode
- rupture
- Initiating cause
- extreme environmental conditions (earthquake)
- Root CAUSE analysis
INITIATING cause was the damage to the hydrogen storage system due to the earthquake. Details are missing for a root cause.
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/07/2024
Facility
- Application
- Electrical, electronics and micro-electronics industry
- Sub-application
- electrochemical battery production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
CGH2 storage tank
- Process temperature range [C]
- unknown
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- unknown
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
Related to the tohuku earthquake
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 2
- Post-event summary
Two light injuries. Damage to buildings, machinery, equipment.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- ARIA
- Reference & weblink
ARIA report :
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/wp-content/files_mf/Over…
(acccessed December 2023)
