Event
- Event ID
- 65
- Quality
- Description
- A liquid hydrogen tanker went off road and overturned. There was no spillage. All regulatory agencies were notified and the road was closed for an extended period of time.
- 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?
- Lh2 Tanker
- How was it involved?
- No Release
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The INITIATING CAUSE was that the driver lost the control of the vehicle.
The ROOT CAUSE, i nabsence of information on driver conditions and stree
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transfer (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- vent valve
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Currency
- US$
- Property loss (onsite)
- 170000
- Post-event summary
- The road was closed for several hours
- Emergency action
- none
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
The fact that the tanker did not lost confinement speaks in favour of a successful safety design.
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount
- 0
- Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
Event incident I-1990040391 of the PHMSA database (Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, 1996),<br />
https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/analytics/saw.dll?Portalpages<br />
(accessed September 2024)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- PHMSA
