Event
- Event ID
- 1151
- Quality
- Description
- A liquid hydrogen trailer-tractor was travelling on a highway. Because of the snow and the ice underneath, the tractor slid off the road to the right and overturn.
The police and fire department arrived on the scene. There was no package failure or release.
The emergency response team of the transport company was assigned to oversee the up-righting of the tractor and trailer. The tractor and trailer were both towed to a safe location. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Lh2 Tanker
- How was it involved?
- No Release
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The INITIATING and ROOT CAUSES were the loss of control of the vehicles by the driver, caused by ice an snow on the road.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- trailer
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- There was ice and snow on the road.
- Description of the facility/unit/process/substances
- DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIT
Regarding CAPACITY, the PHMSA report provides contradictory data:
Liquid pound capacity = 9640 ponds = 4379 kg
Liquid gallon 1207 = 324 kg
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Environmental damage
- 0
- Property loss (onsite)
- 0
- Property loss (offsite)
- 0
- Post-event summary
- There was no package failure or release.
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
All safeguards worked as expected. The impact did not cause any damage to the pressure control system and there was no hydrogen release. This event confirms the exceptional safety records of this type of transport.- Corrective Measures
- This incident was reviewed with all drivers during a safety training . In the event of severe weather drivers were instructed to safely pull over and to contact their supervisor.
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount
- 0
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
Incident I-2023030050 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
