Release from a compressed storage of an optics component plant The leak was observed on the hydrogen storage consisting of 19 racks of 16 cylinders each. Rescue teams set up a security perimeter…
A hose of a hydrogen tanker parked in at a specialised company ruptured. The released hydrogen ignited and exploded, followed by a fire probably fed by the continuously leaking hydrogen. The local…
In a fertilizer manufacturing plant, a gas leak occurred at an ammonia unit heat exchanger located in a ventilated area outside. The operator partially stopped the unit, set up steam hoses and…
A leak occurred on a relief valve of a high pressure hydrogen storage tank. No explosion or fire occurred.
Leakage of gas from blow-off pipe for depressurization while filling hydrogen in cylinder.
A hydrogen leak occurs at on the hose connection of a tank truck being loaded into an industrial gas company. Alerted by the noise, the driver of the vehicle gave the alert. Firefighters from the…
At a linear accelerator site, a hydrogen retort exploded during ignition of burn-off gas. One employee experienced hearing loss in one ear and a shoulder injury from being blown into a cabinet. A…
A hydrogen tank exploded and caught fire at a chemical plant.
The event occurred at a hydrogen tank, causing a flare and a displacement of air that threw the contract workers against the refinery's metal structure.The workers were using an electric rotary…
The tanker crashed into the guardrail on a ring ramp leading to a highway. The tanker overturned, and the tank unit plunged more than 20 meters onto a road below.Witnesses reported multiple…
A tanker carrying liquid hydrogen overturned without rupturing. Traffic on an interstate highway was closed throughout the afternoon and evening.
The incident occurred on a highway. The truck would have tried to avoid an obstacle fallen on the road. It so left the road, collided with the central guardrail and tipped over on the other side.…
The vehicle involved consisted of a tractor and semi-trailer and was carrying 17 cylinders of 200 m of compressed hydrogen each. The driver lost control of the vehicle, crossed the traffic lanes and…
A lorry crashed into a hydrogen tube trailer with considerable speed on the highway A1 near Cologne. The lorry driver was killed. Gas escaped from tubes and valves of three of the nine tanks and was…
This resulted in the destruction of the building where the explosion occurred and claimed the lives of two people. The triggering event was a blowing out of a gasket in a water pump situated in a 100…
A Worner 1000 STU gas balloon, of German registry D-OAGH, piloted by a commercial pilot was substantially damaged during landing, when the hydrogen-filled envelope came in contact with a power line,…
A release of a mixture of hydrogen, nitrogen and ammonia ignited and exploded in the ammonia synthesis unit. The release occurred on a flange of the heat exchanger. and was due to a crack on the…
An incident occurred on a compressor at a refinery Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU) plant involving hydrogen. Source of ignition was hot surface.
The incident involves a gas booster provided by a manufacturer. This device is used in the experimental platform of the project to raise the pressure in pipelines from 60 to 80 barg (from 6 to 8 MPa…
The event occurred in a university research building dedicated to the study of the take-off of space launchers . An operator gave the alarm during the hydrogen pressure pre-setting phase. he had seen…
An implosion/explosion occurred on a furnace in a company of copper metallurgy. The incident occurred at the end of the production cycle, when the furnace bell is lifted at the end of the cooling…
A pressure relief device (frangible burst disk) on one of a hydrogen delivery tube trailer`s 26 tubes failed prematurely and released hydrogen while filling a hydrogen storage tank at a government…
An isomerization unit of a refinery was affected. The release was caused by the mechanical failure of one of the two compressors working in parallel at a pressure of 20 bars, conveying the gas…
A jet fire occurred on the ammonia production unit, caused by a leak on a hydrogen pipe. No victims.
The fire took place during maintenance works in one out of the three gas extractors of the coke process line. Main cause was displacement of a flange which allowed the entrance of flammable mixture…
The laboratory works with soil bacteria that cannot survive in the presence of oxygen. As a result, research work is conducted inside a plastic chamber in which the chemical constituents in the air…
A leak and fire occurred in a hydrogen compression section of a hydrocracker.
A mixture of mainly carbon monoxide and hydrogen was released from a pipeline transferring process gases in a not further specified unit of a chemical plant, generating a flammable mixture which…
This near miss occurred at a depot site with 20 fuel cell buses are operated by a local bus company. A hissing sound was heard coming from a hydrogen tank at the refuelling facility, and the local…
A hydrogen leakage occurred in the ammonia workshop of a plant manufacturing nitrogen products and fertilizer (classified SEVESO high threshold). It was detected by an operator in charge of safety…
