Event
- Event ID
- 1022
- Quality
- Description
- An explosion took place at a tungsten manufacturing facility, resulting in injuries to four employees and one contractor working in the area. Online news reported the failure and exploison of a hydrogen tank
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Storage Vessel
- How was it involved?
- Rupture & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Steel And Metals Industry
- Sub-application
- tungsten processing
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Storage (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- hydtoen storage tank
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 5
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- Unknown. The news mention that both company workers & contractors were among the injured.
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
Unknown (years after the incident date, the result of the investigation has not been published)
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Oline news at "WENY news":<br />
https://www.weny.com/story/46341587/reported-explosion-at-towanda-manuf… />
(accessed April 2025)Oline news at "WENY news":<br />
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&… />
(accessed April 2025)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
