Event
- Event ID
- 348
- Quality
- Description
- An explosion occurred in the glass components of a reactor at a pharmaceutical plant during a batch process. At the time of the accident, the reactor was being hydrogenated. As a result of the explosion, the upper part of the glass components broke, some of the suspended ceiling boards fell off and ceiling light cover glasses were splintered, and one of the inner windows of the explosion wall two metres from the site broke. The accident did not result in any personal injuries.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Finland
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Pipe
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
- Root CAUSE analysis
- Causes unknown
Facility
- Application
- Chemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Pharmaceutical production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- Reactor, glass, ceiling
- Location type
- Confined
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
- Deflagration
- N
- High pressure explosion
- Y
- High voltage explosion
- N
References
- Reference & weblink
Source lost
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- Unknown
