Event
- Event ID
- 172
- Quality
- Description
- Firefighters used thermal imaging cameras to locate and extinguish a hydrogen fire at a silicon manufacturing plant.
- 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?
- Unknown
- How was it involved?
- Fire
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Chemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Silicon production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- slilicon reactor
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Emergency action
- A security perimeter was set up with stop of the road and rail traffic.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
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JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- FireWorld
