Event
- Event ID
- 1171
- Quality
- Description
- hydrogen gas cylinder explosion and subsequent fire in an electrical products company. 3 fatalities and 8 injuries.
[Note of the validator: while the majority of the news report as cause the failure of a hydrogen cylinder, few report is as boiler explosion]. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- India
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Cylinder(S)
- How was it involved?
- Rupture & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Electronics And Micro-Electronics
- Sub-application
- electrical products
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Storage (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- hydtreon cylinder
- Location type
- Confined
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 8
- Number of fatalities
- 3
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Online news of Time of India: <br />
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/3-killed-8-hurt-in-naig… />
(accesed April 2025)Mentioned also by Wikipedia:<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_safety#cite_note-88<br />
(accessed Apirl 2025)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
