Event
- Event ID
- 32
- Quality
- Description
- A truck carrying 300 cylinders of hydrogen ran off the road and overturned in a nearby field causing 1 casualty. The fire fighting were on site, the truck was lifted back in the right position
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Not specified
- Nature of the consequences
- False Alarm (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cylinders Truck
- How was it involved?
- No Release
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- In absence of details, the most plausible INITIATING CAUSE appears to be a loss of control of the vehicle and the ROOT CAUSE an error of the driver
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Storage (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- CH2 cylinders
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Emergency action
- No emergency action was necessary: the pressure in the inner vessel of the double-walled tank had risen above 3.45 barg (50 psig), and the safety relief valve opened to release excess hydrogen vapour.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
Source unvailable
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- FACTS
