Event
- Event ID
- 53
- Quality
- Description
- Hydrogen explosion at plant making sweeteners injured 3 workers
- 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?
- Unknown
- 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
- unknown
- Location type
- Underground
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
- Pre-event occurrences
- The explosion occurred at a sweeteners production plant
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 3
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Property loss (offsite)
- 0
- Emergency action
- The circuit breakers of the hydrogen feed valves and the pump valves were actuated. The on-site emergency response service was immediately alerted and extinguished the fire.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
HIAD 1.0 reporting template (Original source unavailable).
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- HySafe
