Event
- Event ID
- 998
- Quality
- Description
- A hose of a hydrogen tube trailer parked in at a specialised company ruptured. The released hydrogen ignited and exploded, followed by a fire probably fed by the continuously leaking hydrogen.
The local fire rescue team rushed to the scene after receiving the alarm call.
The fire was quickly brought under control and extinguished.
Firefighters continued to cool the tank to avoid further problems.
There were no casualties at the scene.
There were two hydrogen trailers parked at the accident site. The other truck was not affected. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Hose (Trailer)
- How was it involved?
- Rupture
- Initiating cause
- Material Degradation (Generic)
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- hydrogen delivery to an industrial site, hose. Unclear if the hose was connected and was trasferring hydrogen when ruptured
- Location type
- Open
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- It is not known if a hydrogen delivery was taking place, or if the trailer was just parked there.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- There were no casualties at the scene
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
The description of the event does not provide enough details to draw a specific lesson learnt.
The editor of the news at the website used as a source for this event, wrote the following:
"Relevant specialist enterprises should understand the risks and hazards associated with hydrogen, establish safety rules for the use of hydrogen. They should also be well prepared with counter measures to deal with accidents, prevent problems before they occur, and prevent incidents from occurring. It is also necessary to have clear understanding about how to handle hydrogen safely to prevent similar accidents from happening again." https://new.qq.com/omn/20210807/20210807A02SN600.html
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
- Flame type
- Jet flame
References
- Reference & weblink
Translation from the Chinese web-news at https://new.qq.com/omn/20210807/20210807A02SN600.html<br />
(accessed June 2023, now not available anymore)ICHEMSAFE report available at<br />
https://www.ichemsafe.com/index/IncidentInfo/detail?id=3510<br />
(accessed Jan 2026)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News