Event
- Event ID
- 197
- Quality
- Description
- A release of hydrogen took place in a metal cold rolling workshop.
The hydrogen leaked from a cylinder of 15 m3, which was part of a storage system of 250 m3.
Half of the workshop and the surrounding roads were evacuated and a specialised company intervened to solve the technical problem. - 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?
- Cgh2 Cylinder(S)
- How was it involved?
- Leak
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Steel And Metals Industry
- Sub-application
- metal cold rolling
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Storage (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- hydrogen cylinder, metal rolling process
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- Evacuation of the site
- Emergency action
- Firefighters from the nearby petrochemical platform stopped the leak by closing the manual valves on the tank.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
Event description no. 18194 in the French database ARIA
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
