Event
- Event ID
- 908
- Quality
- Description
- A hydrogen leak occurred on one of the cylinders carried by a truck.
After the leak was stopped, the vehicle was escorted by the fire brigade and taken to a laboratory for inspection.
[Nore of HIAD event validator: the source mentions liquid hydrogen in combination with the transportation of multiple cylinders: transportation of LH2 in multiple cryogenic bottles is never mentioned in the literature, this was much more probably a compressed hydrogen releases, and it is classified as such]. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Leak No Ignition (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Cylinder(S)
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- 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
- CGH2 cylinder
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
Event description in French database ARIA<br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/1741/<br />
(accessed September 2020)<br />
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
