A pick-up truck pulling a trailer carrying compressed hydrogen crashed in Ohio yesterday. The hydrogen leaked and ignited, producing flames ten metres into the air. The hydrogen quantity transported…
The fire started 3 hours after being shut down. The unit was shut down and the fire extinguished.The oven contained only gaseous products and mainly hydrogen.
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 leak occurred on a process pipe of a pressurized at 17 bar and located 3.5 m from the ground The gaseous mixture composed of hydrogen, methane and hydrogen sulfide (density: 0.6) was released to…
At least one person was injured in an explosion at a theatre building. The investigation concluded that the accident has been caused by hydrogen entering the sprinkler room from the sprinkler piping…
During the shipments of incinerator bottom ash, flammable gasses including hydrogen generated and caused two explosions. The first explosion was in the forecastle store and the second in the cargo…
Hydrogen leak due to a fault with non-process related battery equipment.After reporting the hydrogen leak, fire crews have been called to a gas terminal. The leak was due to a fault with non-process…
The event occurred during the decommissioning of a nuclear power plant. It involved a tank containing 100 kg of residual sodium from the decommissioned experimental nuclear reactor which was using…
At about 3:15 p.m. on Dec. 3 2003, personnel in the Expended Core Facility at the Naval Reactors Facility heard a loud, unexpected noise. Upon investigation, personnel found an irradiated material…
Heavy rains (more than 600 mm in 1 day) had flood a factory manufacturing calcium core electrical conductors. The power supply was cut off. The water came into contact with the calcium stored in 150…
The event occurred in a silicon hydride (SiH) emulsion production process inside an enclosed production building. The process generated a flammable gas cloud gas ignited, which later ignited causing…
Following a loss of power the failure of a backup battery causes an alarm in a hydrogen storage facility. Consequently, a valve on the purge circuit and 30 m3 of hydrogen is released to 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 fire ignited roofing materials which had fallen down as the result of the explosion.The operator, who was outside the plant when the explosion occurred, pulled the emergency switch which shut…
The incident occurred in an electrostatic filtration unit. When flushing with air during the start-up phase of a sulphonation plant, an explosion occurred in the upper partof the electrostatic…
An explosion occurred in a electrolyzer cell, the vent blew up and caused a pipe rupture on the low pressure chlorine pipeline. The event occurred when two operators were improving the tightness of…
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.…
Leaking hydrogen ignited at a plant that processes bitumen from oil sands.
An in-line inspection of the hydrogen pipeline was being conducted and prior to the last run of the in-line inspection tool (mfl), hydrogen gas was released and ignited from a blind flange connection…
The bolts on a not further specified industrial facility failed after approximately 4000 hours in service (approximately 18 months in service). Their failure bolts causedH2S leaks. The bolts…
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…
The soldiers of the Royal Prussian Air Ship Division stored large amounts of hydrogen gas. They kept some 1000 cylinders in a shed. On 25 May 1894 about 400 of them burst without apparent reason.…
A fire and a series of explosions occurred on a petrochemical plant, causing damage to process vessels, containment walls and process utility piping. It is believed that lightning struck a two story…
The bus collided with the overhang of a shop.
A Bus driving hits a parked car
The explosion occurred in a plant for the production of butter. It was due to the rupture of a hydrogen tank, during a sterilization process at high temperature (so-called UHT treatment). Two…
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.