Event
- Event ID
- 39
- Quality
- Description
- the hazmat crews evacuated the workers at the Atmel building and established a safe zone. The crews used liquid nitrogen. The biggest danger was the possibility of an explosion.
- 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?
- Unknown
- How was it involved?
- Unknown
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Other
- Sub-application
- Semi-conductors manufacturer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- unknown
- Location type
- Unknown
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Emergency action
- Over 300 local residents were evacuated in a a radius of 800 m. The traffic on the nearby highway stopped for 2 hours and the railway traffic was reduced, to allow the fire fighters to intervene using that area. The emergency management was performed using the EPA software CAMEO (https://www.epa.gov/cameo).
Nothing is known on how that leak was stopped. Since the tanker was almost empty, it can be assumed that it was decided to let the fire extinguish by itself, and then simply driving away.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Source lost
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- Unknown
