Event
- Event ID
- 754
- Quality
- Description
- 30 bottles with compressed hydrogen fell from a truck at a junction, because of speeding. The bottles started releasing hydrogen. Emergence team was called, and leak was stopped.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Leak No Ignition (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Valve (Generic)
- How was it involved?
- Rupture
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The INITIATING cause was the high speed of the truck.
Although this seems to suggest a human error (not respecting of the speed limit for the application), the event could be also classified as an operation cause: why the safety design had not considered this anomalous event and provided preventing measures?
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
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
Original source lost
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- Unknown
