Event
- Event ID
- 190
- Quality
- Description
- An explosion followed by a fire occurs in a refinery, originated by a hydrogen release at the hydrogen compressor.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Compressor / Booster / Pump
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Generic refinery process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Compression (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- hydrogen compressor
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 3
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Official legal action
- OSHA performed investigations on the incident, but it is not available on the OHSA website.
- Emergency action
- The fire brigade decided for an emergency zone of 200 m. Workers of 20 companies were evacuated.
The traffic on neighbouring roads stopped.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Event description no 21760 in the French database ARIA (accessed October 2021)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
