Event
- Event ID
- 1233
- Quality
- Description
- An explosion involving hydrogen occurred at cooking oils and other food products plant. It was located at the hydrogen storage tank and caused one injury and two fatalities.
The area directly affected by the explosion appears more than 20-30 m in radius. From the pictures delivered by the news, the hydrogen tank was probably displaced vertically and landed a couple of metres further. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- South America
- Country
- Paraguay
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Vessel (Stationary)
- How was it involved?
- Unknown
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Chemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Food production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- tank
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Number of fatalities
- 2
- Post-event summary
- Two workers suffered extensive burns across their bodies, while a third worker was injured after falling from a nearby roof as a result of the blast. They were all hospitalised, were the two who had suffered burnd died.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Hazardex new of 5 December 2025<br />
https://www.hazardexonthenet.net/article/219333/Hydrogen-explosion-kill… />
(accessed December 2025)Hydrogen Inshigt news of 1/12/2025<br />
https://statics.teams.cdn.office.net/evergreen-assets/safelinks/2/atp-s… />
(accessed December 2025)
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