Event
- Event ID
- 1149
- Quality
- Description
- A LH2 was travelling on a highway early in the morning, when the driver lost the control of the vehicle, rolling over on the side of the road.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Lh2 Tanker
- How was it involved?
- No Release
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- INITIATING CAUSE was a traffic accident.
In absence of information on driver, the ROOT CAUSE is attributed generically to a human error (wrong manoeuvre).
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- none
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Environmental damage
- 0
- Property loss (onsite)
- 0
- Property loss (offsite)
- 0
- Post-event summary
- According to the news, it did not come to hydrogen release.
Probably the driver was lightly injured, due to the roll over.
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount
- 0
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
HydrogenInsight news of 7 Feb 2023<br />
https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/explosion-after-explosion-thr… <br />
(retrieved February 2023)Local21News of 5 February 2023<br />
https://local21news.com/news/local/hydrogen-tanker-flips-over-and-traps… />
(accessed December 2024)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
