Event
- Event ID
- 410
- Quality
- Description
- The bus drove into the garage and collided with a folded-out safety barrier. The upper corner of the roof was damaged. Also the first hydrogen tank was affected by the collision but without any hydrogen leakage
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Tube Trailer
- How was it involved?
- Damage, No Release
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The INITATING CAUSE was a collision between a FCEV bus and a stationary barrier.
The safety barrier was not in the correct position. It was not folded in by the responsible technicians after the previous maintenance work.
The ROT CAUSE was a human error.
Facility
- Application
- Road Vehicles
- Sub-application
- Hydrogen bus
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- Hydrogen bus, barrier.
- Location type
- Unknown
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- Replacement of the first hydrogen tank; after the replacement of the hydrogen tank a new safety certificate was issued by the 'TÜV' (Technical control board)
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount
- 0
- Actual pressure (MPa)
- 35
- Design pressure (MPa)
- 35
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
Report available but confidential
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- Investigation report
