Event
- Event ID
- 716
- Quality
- Description
- A liquid hydrogen trailer-tractor was traveling north on a highway, when the traffic started backing up. The driver put on flashers to warn other motorists to slow down. Nevertheless, a second vehicles struck the trailer in the rear causing severe damage to it. The impact caused the second vehicle to burn at the scene. There were no releases of any product from the LH2 trailer.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Tube Trailer
- How was it involved?
- No Release
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- INITIATING CAUSE was a traffic accident. In absence of information on drivers and driver behaviours, the ROOT CAUSE can be attributed generically to a human error (wrong manoeuvre), without participation of the hydrogen system.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- rear of the LH2 trailer
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Environmental damage
- 0
- Currency
- US$
- Property loss (onsite)
- 200000
- Post-event summary
- Trailer rear was heavily damage, there was no hydrogen release
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount
- 0
- Actual pressure (MPa)
- < 0.42
- Design pressure (MPa)
- 0.42
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
Incident E-2015120272 of the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration PHMSA: <br />
https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/analytics/saw.dll?Portalpages&PortalPath=%… />
(accessed September 2024)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- PHMSA
