HIAD Facility - Storage Medium: Gas

FCEV left front side of the vehicle damaged.

The left rear side of the FCEV vehicle was damage.

At about 9:50 a.m., a lightning strike ignited hydrogen exiting a stack in a chemical factory. This hydrogen, produced by the chlorine electrolysis cells, is conveyed to the stack when the…

At a refuelling station for buses, the first dispenser had been taken out of operation, becasue leaking (see HIAD event 403). Another dispenser was being used. Fuelling was taking too long and was…

A hydrogen explosion happened at a chemical plant in Cheshire, UK where 18 tons of hydrogen gas went up. The firefighters were on the scene tackling the fire quickly and efficiently.

Minor car crash involving a FCEV, damaging its front bumper.No injury or harm was caused to the driver or anyone else.

During a filling at a hydrogen refuelling station, the station was shut down due to a gas detection. The leak was extremely small and difficult to locate but the gas was directed upwards towards the…

A motor scooter striped the left side of a hydrogen and fuel cells bus .

A motor scooter scratched the left side of a hydrogen bus

Motorway accident which involved a large quantity of vehicles and a gaseous tube trailer which transported gas hydrogen in pressure. Some cars were burning under the back part of the gaseous tube…

[NOTE: The system involved in this neear miss are not completely clear]The system involved appears to consist in an electrolyzer, a compressor and high pressure tanks, used to refuel hydrogen buses.…

In 1987, well diggers had drilled a well for water, but had given up on one dry borehole at a depth of 108 meters. According to the source reported in the References, wind was coming out of the hole…

A chemical mobile intervention unit intervened in the faculty to neutralize in an envelope sealed an experimental device likely to release hydrogen. The faculty was evacuated during the intervention.

This near miss occurred at the at an airport's hydrogen refilling station. Around 4:30 a.m., the hydrogen detector of the station was triggered and a sound and light alarm were activated. The…

This near miss occurred at an airport's hydrogen refilling station. At 7:35, a hydrogen leak was detected by hearing whistles in the near of a pipe. The operators warned the airport firefighters ten…

An oil leak in a compressor was identified in the end of Aug 2015 by a technician performing regular maintenance on the compressor. The oil leak had caused a contamination of the entire system from…

The incident occurred during a temporary shutdown of the distillate hydro-treatement unit. The crude oil distillation units main column overhead product was pumped to a gasoline storage tank via the…

In a paper plant, an explosion occurs in a paper pulp tank while 2 workers were carrying out pipes cutting with a grinder on the roof of the tank. Detailed analysis of the event was performed by two…

A hydrogen pipe burst at a semiconductor plant injuring 1 person

An explosion or fire occurred in a hydro-treatment unit which was processing Fluid Catalytic Cracking feedstock. It was caused by a failure in a pipe downstream from a separator, resulting in the…