Event
- Event ID
- 934
- Quality
- Description
- Release from a compressed storage of an optics component plant
The leak was observed on the hydrogen storage consisting of 19 racks of 16 cylinders each.
Rescue teams set up a security perimeter and a specialized company inspected the leak.
The activity of the establishment were interrupted during the night and resumed the next morning. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Leak No Ignition (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Other
- Sub-application
- Optics component manufacturer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Storage (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- compressed hydrogen cylinders 19 rack, 16 cylinders each
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
Event description in the French database ARIA<br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/43425/<br />
(accessed September 2020)<br />
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
