Event
- Event ID
- 419
- Quality
- Description
- A compressed hydrogen tube trailer-truck was returning to the home terminal after having delivered the gas to a customer. The driver lost control of the truck, while attempting to avoid a collision with another vehicle. The truck went into a ditch and overturn. The impact damaged the manifold and the valves resulting in hydrogen release and ignition. The fire engulfed also the truck cabin.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Valve (Generic)
- How was it involved?
- Rupture & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The INITIATING and ROOT CAUSE is reported as a human error, due to the excessive speed of the tanker
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- safety valves
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- The tanker had already delivered the hydrogen, and was very containing only rest gas. The quantity provided by the PHMSA report could indicate the total hydrogen amount left in the trailer before the crash.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Environmental damage
- 0
- Property loss (offsite)
- 0
- Official legal action
- The driver burned his hands when trying to exit the cabin in fire.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Released amount
- 24
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Incident I-1984010081 of the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration PHMSA: <br />
https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/analytics/saw.dll?Portalpages&PortalPath=%… />
(accessed September 2024)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- PHMSA
