Event
- Event ID
- 1094
- Quality
- Description
- The incident occurred at a plant manufacturing polymer batteries, audio and GPS systems.
As consequence of the great tohokyu earthquake and tsunami, a pipe of a hydrogen tank started leaking, causing an explosion followed by a fire . Two injuries. And damages to the neighbourhood buildings, machinery, equipment. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Japan
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Pipe
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Extreme Environmental Conditions (Earthquake)
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- INITIATING cause was the damage to the hydrogen storage system due to the earthquake. Details are missing for a root cause.
Facility
- Application
- Chemical Industry
- Sub-application
- electrical & electronic products
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Storage (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- storage tank
- Location type
- Unknown
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- Related to the tohuku earthquake
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 2
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- Two light injuries. Damage to buildings, machinery, equipment.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
ARIA report :<br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/wp-content/files_mf/Over… />
(acccessed December 2023)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
