Event
- Event ID
- 162
- Quality
- Description
- 3 people were killed when 18 hydrogen gas cylinders exploded.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Viet Nam
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Cylinder(S)
- How was it involved?
- Internal Explosion
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Unknown
- Sub-application
- unspecified
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Storage (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- hydrogen gas cylinders
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 3
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
link to thisreference lost
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- Incidents, Week 41 2006, at http://www.saunalahti.fi/ility/PI0641.htm
