Event
- Event ID
- 141
- Quality
- Description
A tanker carrying 11500 gallon of liquid hydrogen was travelling on a highway, when it was involved in a collision with a private vehicle. The tanker overturned.
The impact and the unsuccessful attempt of the driver to avoid the impact caused the tractor steering wheel to spin in the driver's hands. The private car hit twice the tractor, and the vehicles came to rest about 40 feet apart. The tractor was nearly at rest when the liquid in the tank trailer shifted causing the tractor-trailer unit to rollover on the passenger side.
No injuries to the driver and his passenger, the driver of the automobile and the passenger had minor injuries but did not go to the hospital.
There was no loss or release of product from the trailer.- 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 traffic accident,
The ROOT CAUSE was the loss of control of the second vehicle.
The fact that the trailer, despite the roll over, did not experienced any hydrogen loss, shows that the safety systems in place worked according to design.- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/12/2024
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
- 0
- Currency
- US$
- Property loss (onsite)
- 80.723
- Post-event summary
No injuries to the driver and his passenger, the driver of the automobile and her passenger had minor injuries but did not go to the hospital.
There was no loss or release of product from the tanker.
The costs indicated were probably related to the damage from the crash.- Emergency action
Unknown. Probably an emergency team of the company inspected the tanker before declaring it safe for up-righting it.
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
The fact that the trailer, despite the roll over, did not experienced any hydrogen loss, shows that the safety systems in place worked according to design.
In-depth data
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount (kg)
- 0
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- PHMSA
- Reference & weblink
Incident I-1999100714 of the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration PHMSA:
https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/data-and-statistics/pipeline/distribution-tra…
(accessed September 2024)