Event
- Event ID
- 455
- Quality
- Description
- A liquid hydrogen tanker was traveling west bound on a highway, when adverse weather conditions (snow and wind) caused a brief "whiteout". To avoid a group of vehicles stopped in front of the trailer, the driver determined an evasive action by going off on the shoulder. When the tanker left the road, it made contact with the tail end of an unoccupied other vehicle and a high packed snow bank. Once stopped, 6 to 10 other vehicles hit the tanker, but no hydrogen was released.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Lh2 Tanker
- How was it involved?
- No Release
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The INITIAL and ROOT CAUSE was a road accident, caused by a human error, without participation of the hydrogen system.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- tanker rear
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- Snow and wind on the highway
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- Damage unknown.
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount
- 0
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
IncidentI-2011030516 of the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration PHMSA: <br />
https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/analytics/saw.dll?Portalpages&PortalPath=%… />
(accessed September 2024)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- PHMSA
