Event
- Event ID
- 32
- Quality
- Description
A truck carrying 300 cylinders of hydrogen ran off the road and overturned in a nearby field causing 1 casualty. The fire fighting were on site, the truck was lifted back in the right position
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Date
- Component involved
- CGH2 cylinder(s)
- Failure mode
- damage, no release
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
In absence of details, the most plausible INITIATING CAUSE appears to be a loss of control of the vehicle and the ROOT CAUSE an error of the driver
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
CH2 cylinders
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- medium to high pressure (10 to 50 MPa)
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- highway or similar
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- FACTS
- Reference & weblink
Source unvailable
