Event
- Event ID
- 665
- Quality
- Description
- A leak of a flammable mixture of hydrocarbons and hydrogen from a ruptured pipeline caused an explosion and fire, killing one person and injuring forty six. Investigations into the incident found that emergency procedures were not followed.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Pipe
- How was it involved?
- Rupture & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Hc-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Material Degradation (Generic)
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
The INITIATING CAUSE was the rupture of a pipeline releasing a mixture of hydroncarbon abd hydrogen, for unreproted cause.
The ROOT CAUSE could be attributed to failure in following the existing procedures.
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Pipeline
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- Pipeline
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 46
- Number of fatalities
- 1
- Post-event summary
- One fatality and forty six injured persons.
Event Nature
- Release type
- Gas-liquid mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2,
hydrocarbons - Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Event nr 11496 of the UK database ICHEME in PDF.<br />
<br />
https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/ <br />
(accessed October 2020)The primary source was in CHEMICAL HAZARDS IN INDUSTRY, JUNE 1999 which is no more available.
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ICHEME
