Event
- Event ID
- 148
- Quality
- Description
- An explosion occurred whole two employees inside a facility were working with aluminium paste. Crews believed the blast was caused by hydrogen that had built up in the plant.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- 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
- Steel And Metals Industry
- Sub-application
- Aluminium production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Emergency action
- The police delimited an area (500 metres large) around the plant. The rail traffic was stopped and the road traffic deviated.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
FireWorld
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
