Event
- Event ID
- 157
- Quality
- Description
- The explosion involving hydrogen gas knocked a 36-by-70-foot hole in the roof of the plant. Officials said the gas was formed when chemicals mixed in the plant's waste treatment unit.
- 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?
- Chemical Storage Tank (Waste)
- How was it involved?
- Internal Explosion
- Initiating cause
- Accidental Hydrogen Formation
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Electronics And Micro-Electronics
- Sub-application
- waste management
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- waste treatment unit
- 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 mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- gas mixture
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
- Deflagration
- N
- High pressure explosion
- N
- High voltage explosion
- N
References
- Reference & weblink
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JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- FireWorld
