Event
- Event ID
- 853
- Quality
- Description
- The fire broke out under the cabin of a heavy-duty vehicle transporting industrial gas cylinders (hydrogen, acetylene, helium) close to a paint company.
Firefighters shelter the employees of this company and deploy 2 water lances.
The fire was extinguished after 3 hours, the cabin was destroyed but the load was intact. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Cylinder(S)
- How was it involved?
- No Release
- Initiating cause
- Conventional Component Failure (Fire)
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
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
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- the cabin of the truck was destroyed but the load (gas cylinders) was intact.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
ARIA data base <br />
event no. 41357
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA