Event
- Event ID
- 1241
- Quality
- Description
- A truck carrying cylinders was travelling on a highway when its front tyre burst. It rolled over in a farm and the gas started leaking from the cylinders. The driver called the emergency service. The cylinders in the truck caught fire and started exploding one after another. A number of cylinders were seen flying high in the air like missiles” according to the news.
The traffic on that section of the highway was diverted and a safe perimeter of more than 200 m was installed. The fire brigade intervened with a defensive strategy, due to the involvement of hydrogen cylinders in the fire. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire Followed By An Explosion (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- India
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Cylinder(S)
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 cylinders truck
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- tyre, truck
- Location type
- Open
- Location description
- Countriside Or Desert
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- The truck was at total loss.
References
- Reference & weblink
Online news of Time of India: <br />
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/truck-carrying-hydrogen…. <br />
(accessed December 2025)Online news of \Buisness Standard: <br />
https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/truck-laden-w… />
(accessed December 2025)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
