Event
- Event ID
- 836
- Quality
- Description
- A six-cylinder rack containing an argon / hydrogen mixture was dropped from a truck on a national highway, causing a gas leak.
A security perimeter was set up. The services of the equipment took care of the cylinders. - 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
- Main component involved?
- Valve (Generic)
- How was it involved?
- Rupture
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- INITIATING cause is the fall of a compressed gas bottle rack from a truck. The reason of the fall is not reported. Even in absence of a specific casue, the ROOT CAUSE can be identified in failing in ensuring a correct fixing of the load.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 cylinders truck
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- cylinders
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- A security perimeter was set up.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
ARIA data base <br />
event no. 25605
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
