Event
- Event ID
- 298
- Quality
- Description
- A truck was traveling on a highway carrying three hydrogen pallets. When trying to pass a vehicle ahead, the driver moved too far to the right, causing the wheels to hitting a snow-covered roadside ditch. The vehicle lost balance and overturn. One of the cartridges fell due to the impact, and both the vehicle and the cartridge were burned.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Japan
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Valve (Generic)
- How was it involved?
- Rupture & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The INITIATING was the driver losing control of the truck.
The ROOT CAUSE was not having properly secured and protected the cylinders.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 cylinders truck
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- valve, cylinders, pallets
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Emergency action
- It cosnsited in a time- and nerves-consumig search for the leak.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Mechanical sparks
References
- Reference & weblink
High Pressure Gas Accident Cases Database of the KHK (High Pressure Gas Safety Association): <br />
https://www.khk.or.jp/public_information/incident_investigation/hpg_inc… />
(accessed May 2025)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- KHK
