Event
- Event ID
- 997
- Quality
- Description
the commercial vehicle was traveling when the two-person crew noticed what appeared to be smoke emitting from the tanker trailer. The crew called 911 and safely pulled to the side of the road
Fire brigade, law enforcement and Department of Transportation personnel then escorted the vehicle to a safe location near a University main campus.
The hazard response team entered in contact with the transportation company and left the tanker depressurizing and off-gassing till it was safe for it to further travel.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Leak No Ignition (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Valve (Generic)
- 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
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- liquid hydrogen tanker
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Environmental damage
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Actual pressure (MPa)
- 1
- Design pressure (MPa)
- 1
- Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
Documents with texts and pictures from the two sources: <br />
https://www.krwg.org/regional/2021-04-01/las-cruces-hazmat-response-tea… <br />
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https://eu.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2021/04/01/25-near-10-closed-while…
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
