Event
- Event ID
- 274
- Quality
- Description
- Hydrogen leak occurred from temporary pipe work during transfer of hydrogen between permanent and emergency cylinders. Ignition source unknown. Resultant explosion caused serious burns to one employee and fire damage to the area local to the explosion.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Piping
- How was it involved?
- Internal Leak
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
- Root CAUSE analysis
- INITIATING cause was the leak at a hydrogen connection line.
Nothing can be said on the root cause.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Stationary Storage
- Sub-application
- GH2 storage vessel
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transfer (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- pipe
- Location type
- Unknown
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Emergency action
- The fire brigades extinguished the fire with water, in 6 hours.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
- Deflagration
- N
- High pressure explosion
- N
- High voltage explosion
- N
References
- Reference & weblink
Event description provided by HSE, original source confidential
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- HSE
