Event
- Event ID
- 1013
- Quality
- Description
- Hydrogen leak due to a fault with non-process related battery equipment.
After reporting the hydrogen leak, fire crews have been called to a gas terminal. The leak was due to a fault with non-process related battery equipment. - 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
- United Kingdom
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Battery
- How was it involved?
- Leak
- Initiating cause
- Accidental Hydrogen Formation
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Other
- Sub-application
- electrochemical battery storage
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- batteries
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Environmental damage
- 0
- Post-event summary
- No reported injury
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2,
other battery gases - Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
Hull Daily news of 1 October 2020<br />
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/live-gas-… />
(accessed December 2020)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
