Event
- Event ID
- 1069
- Quality
- Description
- The incident occurred at company producing specialised products for aerospace and aero power applications. An employee was operating an induction brazing machine under hydrogen atmosphere when an explosion occurred.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Reactor / Oven / Furnace / Test Chamber
- How was it involved?
- External Explosion (H2-Air Mixture)
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Other
- Sub-application
- induction brazing
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- induction brazing machine
- Location type
- Unknown
- Operational condition
- Description of the facility/unit/process/substances
- DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCESS
Hydrogen is used to avoid surface oxidation when brazing metallic parts at high temperature
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Environmental damage
- 0
- Post-event summary
- The employee was hospitalized for treatment of burns.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
OHSA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) news of 16 Feb 2022 <br />
https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/accidentsearch.accident_detail?id=143791… />
(accessed July 2023)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- OHSA
