Event
- Event ID
- 31
- Quality
- Description
- This incident consisted in the dropping of a gas cylinder and the release of its content due to stress corrosion
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Leak No Ignition (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Netherlands
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Cylinder(S)
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The INITIATING CAUSE was the accidental dropping of a CGH2 cylinders.
A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR is attributed by this very brief report to the degradation of the load-bearing capacity of the cylinder due to stress corrosion. Although not mentioned, it would be plausible to assume that this degradation was hydrogen-assisted.
The ROOT CAUSE could be a combination of a human error causing the dropping and lack of inspection on the integrity of the cylinder. Since the conditions under which the cylinder was transported are unknown, it is impossible to drawn conclusion on the contribution of job-related factors.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Stationary Storage
- Sub-application
- unspecified
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- gas cylinder
- Location type
- Semiconfined
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 2
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- The hydrogen released did not ignited, but injuries occurred because of flying debris caused by the internal pressure.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
M. Kreiser, G. Fröhlich, H. Eichert, A.Schatz, <br />
IKE Universität Stuttgart ISSN 0173-6892, April 1994<br />
Analyse von Störfällen mit Wasserstoff in bisherigen Anwendungsbereichen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von LH2"Bockholts and Koehorst, 1992
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- Scientific article
