Event
- Event ID
- 111
- Quality
- Description
- A car crashed into a liquid hydrogen tanker. The piping and the inner and outer shell of the liquid hydrogen tanker were completely destroyed, resulting in a fire.
[Zalosh and Short, 1978] - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Lh2 Tanker
- How was it involved?
- Rupture & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The INITIATING was the impact on the LH2 tank by the car crash
Nothing is reported on the escalation of the incident, regarding the modality and the quantity of hydrogen released, and the type of fire.
In absence of information on driving conditions, the ROOT CAUSE is attributed generically to a human error (wrong manoeuvre).
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- piping;
tank - Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 2
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Currency
- US$
- Property loss (onsite)
- 128000
- Property loss (offsite)
- 0
- Emergency action
- Company workers in the immediate area were evacuated, and a company fire team poured
water onto the fire. The fire was extinguished in less than 10 minutes, but that the leak continued releasing steam throughout much of the afternoon. Surrounding areas were not evacuated or notified because the release posed no health threat.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Mechanical sparks
References
- Reference & weblink
Extract from Table III of Appendix A of Zalosh and Short<br />
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HYDROGEN FIRE AND EXPLOSION INCIDENTS<br />
Quarterly Report No. 2 for Period December 1, 1977 - February 28, 1978<br />
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6566131<br />
(accessed September 2020)Event incident I-1972100100 of the PHMSA database (Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, 1996),<br />
https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/analytics/saw.dll?Portalpages<br />
(accessed September 2024)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- Zalosh
