Event
- Event ID
- 560
- Quality
- Description
- Three workers were asphyxiated when argon and hydrogen gas leaked from pipes they were installing on an aromatics plant being built on a cracking complex.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Leak No Ignition (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Japan
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Pipe
- How was it involved?
- Erroneous Release
- Initiating cause
- Inadequate Or No Purge
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- Gas leakage causing asphyxiation
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Hydrocracking process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Location type
- Confined
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- Workers were installing new pipes.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 3
- Post-event summary
- Three workers asphyxiated
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2
Ar - Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
source lost
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- CSB
