Event
- Event ID
- 1101
- Quality
- Description
- According to local news, a "hydrogen tanker truck hauling was on fire" at a travel centre on a highway. The videos show, however, simply a flame from what probably is the pressure relief device of the tank.
All businesses in the area and the highway were evacuated as crews investigated the incident. The evacuation remains in place to the morning of the day after.
While one video shows a continuous and rather stable flame, another video shows an intermittent jet fire, possibly caused by a valve opening and closing and releasing ignited hydrogen. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Prd (Valve)
- How was it involved?
- Correct Activation
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
- Root CAUSE analysis
- It seems plausible to attribute the incident to the opening of a pressure relief device. It is however unclear if this was a failure of the material of the device, or a response to an increase of the internal pressure.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- unknown
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Environmental damage
- 0
- Property loss (onsite)
- 0
- Property loss (offsite)
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Released amount
- 536.33610900833
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Reddit video<br />
https://www.reddit.com/r/Truckers/comments/1362ai3/hydrogen_tanker/?utm… <br />
(accesssed January 2025)Queen City news video at <br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRKkqb32v2o<br />
(accessed December 2023)WCNC news<br />
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/businesses-evacuated-after-hy… />
(accessed Decemebr 2023)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News