Event
- Event ID
- 359
- Quality
- Description
A tanker returning from a liquid hydrogen delivery and was containing only gaseous hydrogen. The tractor was hit by truck and demolished. The LH2 trailer did not suffer any leak and vacuum was not broken.
- 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 INITIATING CAUSE was a risky overtaking manoeuvre on the road.
The ROOT CAUSE was human error.
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 16/11/2024
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- 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
It was raining at time of collision.
The truck causing the incident was racing with an auto and attempted to pass, but spun into the lane in front of LH2 trailer-tractor. The tractor traveling about 50 to 55 mph.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
In-depth data
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount (kg)
- 0
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- ORDIN
- Reference & weblink
Mishap no 7 in
P. L. Ordin, Review of hydrogen accidents and incidents in NASA operations, 1974, NASA TM X-71565
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19740020344
