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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)

JRC assessment