Event
- Event ID
- 872
- Quality
- Description
- While driving on a highway, the driver of a compressed hydrogen tube trailers lost control of the vehicle, which rolled on a side and stopped at the berm.
The trailer was loaded with 5000 m3 of hydrogen (approximately 450 kg), but the roll-over and the impact with the ground did not cause any release of hydrogen. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Tube Trailer
- 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 driver, the ROOT CAUSE is attributed generically to a human error (wrong manoeuvre). According to one of the sources, the driver was drinking coffee when he lost vehicle control.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- trailer
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Environmental damage
- 0
- Property loss (onsite)
- low
- Property loss (offsite)
- 0
- Post-event summary
- Only one of the 2 sources report light injuries and a visit to the hospital.
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
- This is a near miss. Despite the roll over, no damage was caused to pressurised cylinders or to related components. The fact that the vehicle experienced the impact with the ground on one side, helped to maintain confinement, not affecting the piping system.
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Involved substances (% vol)
- n.a.
- Release duration
- n.a.
- Release rate
- n.a.
- Released amount
- 0
- Actual pressure (MPa)
- 50
- Design pressure (MPa)
- 50
- Hole shape
- n.a.
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
Rheinische Post news of 4 September<br />
https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/leverkusen/mit-wasserstoff-beladener-l… />
(accessed Novemebr 2025)DVZ of 4 September<br />
https://www.dvz.de/rubriken/detail/news/gefahrguttransporter-kippt-um.h… />
(accessed Novemebr 2025)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
