Event
- Event ID
- 1017
- Quality
- Description
- An explosion occurred while inflating a balloon with hydrogen gas. The News reported the involvement of the hydrogen bottle.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- India
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Balloon
- How was it involved?
- Explosion (H2-Air Mixture)
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
- Root CAUSE analysis
- From the scarce information available and the comparison with similar events, different factors may have contributed, such as malfunctioning of the cylinder valve, gas bottle ageing, lack of maintenance and untrained operators.
Facility
- Application
- Other
- Sub-application
- entertainment balloons
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- balloon, hydrogen gas bottle
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- The accident took place during a public gathering
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 3
- Number of fatalities
- 1
- Post-event summary
- The injured have been hospitalised
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
- High pressure explosion
- N
- High voltage explosion
- N
References
- Reference & weblink
Hindustan Times news<br />
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/1-killed-3-hurt-in-hydrogen-gas-cy… <br />
(accessed December 2022)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
