HIAD Nature of the Consequences: Explosion

An explosion occurs during testing of the hydrogen feeding of an engine in the Spatial Agency Centre.

This event occurred when a hydrogen-carrying trailer was supplying hydrogen to a chemical plant. Instead of filling the hydrogen stationary storage, large quantities of hydrogen were transferred…

Hydrogen leak occurred from temporary pipe work during transfer of hydrogen between permanent and emergency cylinders. Ignition source unknown. Resultant explosion caused serious burns to one…

An explosion occurred on a tank truck whilst unloading hydrogen into a storage tank. The explosion occurred near the discharge valve of the truck injuring two people and starting a fire at the point…

An explosion occurred during a reduction process for the manufacture of para-phenetidine (PPD). The explosion took place due to the convergence of several events. Workers did not firmly close a valve…

A series of explosions occurred on an industrial estate when hydrogen being piped from a road tanker leaked. The tanker containing 80,000 cubic feet of hydrogen was being delivered when the…

A welder was welding a stainless steel drain pipe with an arc welder, above a sulfuric acid storage tank. When he lowered the pipe, the hydrogen gas in tank ignited causing an explosion and one…

Piping failed because of corrosion and a release of hydrogen occurred with an explosion. The fire lasted approximately 10 minutes, resulting in the shutdown of the hydrogen unit. Noise of the…

Two explosions rocked the industrial area of Santa Clara afternoon June 1st 2019, sparking a smoky fire at a chemical, gas storage and transportation facility of Air Products and Chemicals Inc. near…

A trained plant operator was blending water, sand, anhydrite, lime, cement, PFA and powdered aluminum in a mixing chamber to produce material for making building blocks. All powders are pre-weighed…

An explosion occurred in a water skim tank associated with an ethyl benzene dehydrogenation reactor system. The reaction mixture from the reactors containing styrene, ethylbenzene, benzene, toluene…

Iron powder from non-conducting polypropylene IBC was added to EDTA solution at 60 C in reactor. Hydrogen given off, ignited by static.

An explosion occurred caused by a leak of hydrogen from a reactor on a fertilizer plant. The blast hurled the head of a hydrogen gas converter 150m and sent it crashing through reinforced-concrete…

Localized corrosion of a FCCU (Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit) feed Hydrotreater recycle hydrogen line by-pass around a hydrogen pre-heat exchanger led to an explosion and fire.The failed part of the…

Employee used a small industrial vacuum cleaner on an unnamed process. During this process, hydrogen gas built up from a reaction between sulfuric acid and aluminum swarf. When the vacuum cleaner…

The event occurred in an atmospheric pressure tank storing effluents. The plant was in the production phase. The head of the overfill prevention valve located at the top of the tank was thrown a…

The incident took place in a calcium powdered wire manufactory of "Chepetsk Mechanical Plant". Some amount of water find it's way in a container where the mixing of different powders took place. As a…

The accident occurred during the first phase of the batch synthesis of tricarbonyl compound (methylcyclopentadienyl) manganese (TMCM), while the reaction mixture in the reactor consisted of more than…

In a chemical plant, a violent explosion took place during the batch production of chlobenzorex from an aqueous solution of sodium borohydride contained in a feed tank on a movable truck. The…

An explosion and fire occurred at a 3000-gallon (approx. 11400 l) reactor, part of the production process of linear alkyl benzene (LAB), Process materials released from the various vessels and piping…