Event
- Event ID
- 454
- Quality
- Description
- The HRS canopy was lower than the forecourt canopy. Heavy duty vehicles (HDV) were not noticing the issue and hitting the HRS canopy assuming same height.
The canopy has now been repaired twice, and the HRS operator will take care to raise its height to avoid the repeating of the collision.
No injury or harm to people was caused. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Non-Hydrogen Component
- How was it involved?
- Rupture
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The multiple ocurrence of the same near miss suggests a ROOT CAUSE a design shortcoming which did not cosnider the height of the HDV.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Refuelling Station
- Sub-application
- HRS
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Delivery (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- Canopy
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Lesson Learnt
- Corrective Measures
The canopy has now been repaired twice but the HRS operator will increase its height to avoid a new collision strike.
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount
- 0
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
Report provided but confidential
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- Investigation report
