Event
- Event ID
- 455
- Quality
- Description
A liquid hydrogen tanker was traveling west bound on a highway, when adverse weather conditions (snow and wind) caused a brief "whiteout". To avoid a group of vehicles stopped in front of the trailer, the driver determined an evasive action by going off on the shoulder. When the tanker left the road, it made contact with the tail end of an unoccupied other vehicle and a high packed snow bank. Once stopped, 6 to 10 other vehicles hit the tanker, but no hydrogen was released.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Component involved
- LH2 tank (road tanker)
- Failure mode
- damage, no release
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
The INITIAL and ROOT CAUSE was a road accident, caused by a human error, without participation of the hydrogen system.
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2019
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
tanker rear
- 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
- Pre-event occurrences
Snow and wind on the highway
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
Damage unknown.
- Emergency action
none
In-depth data
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount (kg)
- 0
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- PHMSA
- Reference & weblink
IncidentI-2011030516 of the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration PHMSA:
https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/analytics/saw.dll?Portalpages&PortalPath=%…
(accessed September 2024)
