Event
- Event ID
- 852
- Quality
- Description
- The truck was carrying cylinders of nitrogen (N2), oxygen (O2), hydrogen (H2) and acetylene on a national road. It struck the right protection, then the concrete-reinforced central division, and finally overturned across the roadway.
The driver was slightly injured, no cylinder was damaged.
Traffic jams are formed in both directions. The presence of motorists on the emergency stop strip slows the arrival of firefighters. Rescuers set up a security perimeter and cut traffic in one direction. Technical teams of the carrier and the charger go to the scene.
Cylinders and cylinder frames were transferred to another vehicle. The truck is raised at 4 pm and traffic is re-established at 5 pm - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Cylinder(S)
- How was it involved?
- No Release
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- INITIATING cause was a traffic accident. In absence of information on drivers and driver behaviours, the ROOT CAUSE can be attributed generically to a human error (wrong maneuvre)
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 cylinders truck
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- cylinders
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- The driver is slightly injured, no cylinder is damaged. Traffic jams are formed in both directions of D20
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount
- 0
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
ARIA data base <br />
event no. 39617
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
