Event
- Event ID
- 910
- Quality
- Description
- A fire started on the brakes of a truck carrying hydrogen.
Due to the risk of extension of the fire to the hydrogen, the fire brigade install an emergency area until the fire is extinguished.
There has been no release of hydrogen. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Tube Trailer
- How was it involved?
- No Release
- Initiating cause
- Conventional Component Failure (Fire-Brakes)
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- Truck transporting hydrogen
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
Event description in French database ARIA<br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/4839/<br />
(accessed September 2020)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
