Event
- Event ID
- 198
- Quality
- Description
- A fire on a pipe providing hydrogen to a a refinery, causing a light injury to a worker.
Company and local fire departments intervened. The were able to extinguish the fire in 2.30 h. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Pipe
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- pipeline
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- pipeline
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Environmental damage
- 0
- Post-event summary
- The injured worker was assisted on site, his injuries were minor.
Traffic on a highway nearby was stopped for 90 minutes. - Emergency action
- The public rescue services established a 150 m safety perimeter and evacuate 50 employees. The road traffic was interrupted for less than one hour. After the end of the emergency status, the operation of unloading the hydrogen was restarted and successfully brought to an end.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Event description in the French database ARIA<br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/18179/<br />
(accessed October 2020)<br />Event description extracted from the UK database ICHEME in PDF<br />
ICHEME database is no longer available for purchase, but data can be download as PDF for free.<br />
https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/… />
(accessed Aug 2025)<br />
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
