Event
- Event ID
- 197
- Quality
- Description
A release of hydrogen took place in a metal cold rolling workshop.
The hydrogen leaked from a cylinder of 15 m3, which was part of a storage system of 250 m3.Half of the workshop and the surrounding roads were evacuated and a specialised company intervened to solve the technical problem.
- 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
- leak, no ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2021
Facility
- Application
- Steel and metals industry
- Sub-application
- metal cold rolling
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
hydrogen cylinder, metal rolling process
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
Evacuation of the site
- Emergency action
Firemen mobilised 2 teams specialised in chemical incidents.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- ARIA
- Reference & weblink
Event description no. 18194 in the French database ARIA
