Event
- Event ID
- 143
- Quality
- Description
- A hydrogen leak occurs in a manufacture of steel pipes. The leak is detected and the alarm is triggered.
- 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
- France
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Pipe
- How was it involved?
- Leak
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Steel And Metals Industry
- Sub-application
- steel components production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- Manufacturing of steel pipes
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
Event description in the French database ARIA<br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/27556/<br />
(accessed October 2020)<br />
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
