Event
- Event ID
- 1149
- Quality
- Description
A LH2 was travelling on a highway early in the morning, when the driver lost the control of the vehicle, rolling over on the side of the road.
- 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
INITIATING CAUSE was a traffic accident.
In absence of information on driver, the ROOT CAUSE is attributed generically to a human error (wrong manoeuvre).- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 25/10/2024
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
none
- 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
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Property loss (onsite)
- 0
- Post-event summary
According to the news, it did not come to hydrogen release.
Probably the driver was lightly injured, due to the roll over.- Emergency action
When officials arrived at the scene, they discovered the tanker flipped over, with one person trapped inside the vehicle.
In-depth data
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount (kg)
- 0
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- News
- Reference & weblink
HydrogenInsight news of 7 Feb 2023
https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/explosion-after-explosion-thr…
(retrieved February 2023)Local21News of 5 February 2023
https://local21news.com/news/local/hydrogen-tanker-flips-over-and-traps…
(accessed December 2024)
