HIAD Causes: Human Factors
The event occurred while starting a new production cycle. The production supervisor issued specific instruction on a new production cycle to a technician. The technician did not follow them in the…
The event occurred at the factory producing multilayer circuit boards by a multistep dip operation. An employee inadvertently mixed 55 gal of 50 percent hydrogen peroxide into 110 gal of 30 percent…
The explosion took place in the hydrogen gasometer. The bell in the gasometer was lifted 15-20 m straight up and cracked. The cover fell down on the pipe bridge besides the gasometer. The cylindrical…
The explosion occurred while starting up for the first time a hydrogenation reactor.The reactor was being commissioned, by performing tightness tests under hydrogen atmosphere at very high pressure.…
A tank receives, after a negative reactivity test with the bottom supernatant of the tank, 20 m of methyl hydro-dichloro-silane, then 24 m of a mixture of oil and tar (negative reactivity test) and…
A car was driving out of the parking and hit the fuel cell bus at the rear (on the right-hand side).Because of the slow speed of the fuel cell bus and the low speed of the car, only the body of the…
Car driver accidentally opened his car door damaging the bus (front, right side, body and windowpane)
Collision between a hydrogen and fuel cells bust and a private car. The car was driving out from a private street and hit the bus. The bus damage is on the right side, behind the rear tires.
A car driving out from a private street hits the bus on the its right side just behind the rear tires
When filled with air, a tyre of a car suddenly exploded, and the car was burned out. The car illegally carried the hydrogen cylinders. Hydrogen leaked from the cylinders and was thought to be ignited…
A car was overtaking the bus and damaged its rear-left side
An employee was preparing a batch of glycol stearate emulsifier in a vessel. Upon completion of product, the quality control lab reported that the pH was too high and the product needed to be…
A frontal road collision between a truck transporting pressurised hydrogen gas and a carBoth vehicles were projected into the fields, on each side of the road. No leakage of hydrogen gas was observed…
Collision between a hydrogen and fuel cells bus and a private car. The car was overtaking the bus and damaged its rear, left side.
The passenger car rolled down the road without driver and hit the hydrogen bus.
The driver of a hydrogen bus reversed into a post.There was some small material damage to the bus. No leakage of hydrogen (or other gases) occurred.
The bus drove into the garage and collided with a folded-out safety barrier. The upper corner of the roof was damaged. Also the first hydrogen tank was affected by the collision but without any…
A conventional truck drove into a FCEV. The left rear side was damaged. There were no injuries and no hydrogen released. The car body needed to be repaired and the receptacle and the hydrogen tube…