Event
- Event ID
- 1082
- Quality
- Description
- A truck-trailer carrying compressed hydrogen cylinders stopped on an highway and reported a hydrogen leaking from the cylinders. The highway was immediately closed in both directions. When the fire brigade arrived, the truck had stopped on a hard shoulder, and the driver had already left his vehicle. A pipe was reported to be leaking hydrogen. Fire-fighters closed a valve on the affected cylinder group to stop the leak.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Austria
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Piping (Collector)
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The INITATING CAUSE was a leak from one of the compressed hydrogen cylinders transported.
The ROOT CAUSE is unknown.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- gas cylinders
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Environmental damage
- 0
- Property loss (onsite)
- low
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
Kleine Zeitung News of 10 January 2013 <br />
https://www.kleinezeitung.at/kaernten/lavanttal/4015536/Wolfsberg_Wasse… <br />
(accessed Aug 2023)PSI Database ENSAD<br />
https://www.psi.ch/en/ta/ensad<br />
(not online since 2024)<br />
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
