Event
- Event ID
- 586
- Quality
- Description
- A road transportation incident. A road tanker of hydrogen overturned and caught fire.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- INITIATING and ROOT CAUSE: loss of control of the vehicle
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- road tanker
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- Overturn, road incidents
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- fire
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
EVENING GAZETTE, 1976, 29 SEP.
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
