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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…
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…
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…
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…
Leaking hydrogen ignited at a plant that processes bitumen from oil sands.
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…
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…
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…
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…