Event
- Event ID
- 123
- Quality
- Description
- The incident took place in a calcium powdered wire manufactory of "Chepetsk Mechanical Plant". Some amount of water found its way into a container a mix of different powders. As a result of the chemical reaction, an evolution of hydrogen occurred, which exploded, ignited by a sparks. The explosion caused 5 injuries and 4 fatalities.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Chemical Storage Tank
- How was it involved?
- Internal Explosion (H2-H2o-Powder Mixture)
- Initiating cause
- Accidental Hydrogen Formation
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Chemical Industry
- Sub-application
- calcium, zirconium, and depleted uranium powder manufacturer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- support buildings, equipment
- Location type
- Confined
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 5
- Number of fatalities
- 4
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Mechanical sparks
- Deflagration
- Y
- High pressure explosion
- N
- High voltage explosion
- N
References
- Reference & weblink
Provided to HIAD 1.0 by HySafe NoE. (Original source unavailable).
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