Event
- Event ID
- 1132
- Quality
- Description
- A trash hauler struck a CGH2 tube trailer on the right rear corner, crushing the cabinet and shearing off 3 cylinder valves. The hydrogen ignited and the fire caused additional 6 tubes rupturing and adding contributing to the fire. All nine tubes completely vented.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Valve (Generic)
- How was it involved?
- Rupture
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- INITIATING CAUSE was a traffic accident.
In absence of information on driver, the ROOT CAUSE is attributed generically to a human error (wrong manoeuvre).
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- CGH2 tube trailer cabinet
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- The driver of the CGH2 trailer had just stopped for traffic ahead and was starting to take up speed, when the trash hauler approached it at a high rate of speed.
- Description of the facility/unit/process/substances
- The trailer load consisted in 9 tubes, unfortunately the PHMSA reprot provide unrealistic values for their nominal capacity and the released quantities.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 2
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Environmental damage
- 0
- Currency
- US$
- Property loss (onsite)
- 150500
- Property loss (offsite)
- 0
- Post-event summary
- Two light injuries due to the crash.
Material Loss: $ 500.00
Carrier Damage: $ 150,000.00
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Mechanical sparks
References
- Reference & weblink
Incident I-2002090918 of the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration PHMSA: <br />
https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/analytics/saw.dll?Portalpages&PortalPath=%… />
(accessed September 2024)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- PHMSA
