Event
- Event ID
- 948
- Quality
- Description
- A truck driver carrying compressed gas cylinders loaded on pallets stopped on the emergency stop lane of a highway after a tyre burst. The gases transported were: 120 m³ of oxygen, 24 acetylene cylinders, 106.80 m³ of hydrogen, 120 m³ of nitrogen, and 3.6 m³ of B20 balloon gas.
Seeing smoke from an axle, the driver of the vehicle uncoupled and moved the tractor away and warned the emergency services. Firemen were called to stop the fire: they extinguished the fire kept cooled the gas bottles and extinguished the fire two and a half hours later.
The gas pallets were transferred to another vehicle. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Cylinder(S)
- How was it involved?
- No Release
- Initiating cause
- Conventional Component Failure (Fire-Tyres)
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The INITIATING CAUSE of the fire was probably the failure of a equipment that CAUSEd one
axle of the trailer to heat up.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 cylinders truck
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- cylinders
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- No gas release occurred. The truck was completely lost..
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount
- 0
- Actual pressure (MPa)
- 20
- Design pressure (MPa)
- 20
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
Event description in the French database ARIA<br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/39090_en/?lang=… />
(accessed October 2020)<br />
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
