Event
- Event ID
- 744
- Quality
- Description
- Employee #1, a maintenance worker, was killed by a hydrogen blast while working inside a batch hydrogenation unit.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The incident occurred during maintenance operations
Facility
- Application
- Chemical Industry
- Sub-application
- unspecified
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- hydrogenator
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- Maintenance was ongoing inside a hydrogenation unit.
- Description of the facility/unit/process/substances
- DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCESS
From Wikipedia: "Hydrogenation is a chemical reaction between molecular hydrogen and another compound or element, usually in the presence of a catalyst such as nickel, palladium or platinum."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogenation
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 1
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
OSHA Accident Summary Nr: 763086 - Employee Killed By Explosion Inside Batch Hydrogenator<br />
https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/accidentsearch.accident_detail?id=763086… />
(accessed May 2023)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- OHSA
