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Near miss related to hazardous materials in an academic lab

Event

Event ID
834
Quality
Description
A chemical mobile intervention unit intervened in the faculty to neutralize in an envelope sealed an experimental device likely to release hydrogen. The faculty was evacuated during the intervention.
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
Root CAUSE analysis
near-miss

Facility

Application
Laboratory / R&d
Sub-application
unspecified
Hydrogen supply chain stage
Unknown (No additional details provided)
All components affected
laboratory, experimental device
Location type
Confined
Operational condition

Emergency & Consequences

Number of injured persons
0
Number of fatalities
0

Event Nature

Release type
no release
Presumed ignition source
No release

References

Reference & weblink

ARIA data base <br />
event no. 14002

JRC assessment