HIAD Nature Event - Ignition Source: Sparks from Hand Tools

The safety cabinet with compressed hydrogen was located in a laboratory and used to supply hydrogen to an experimental facility. The safety cabinet was equipped with exhaust extraction. Due to a leak…

Employees were trying to open the manhole cover (600 mm diameter) of a hydrofluoric acid tank with a grinder, when an explosion occurred. The explosion was probably caused by the presence of hydrogen…

First an explosion and then a fire occurred on the condensate piping of an chlorine electrolysis plant (SEVESO upper tiers). Flames escape from the end of the pipe and spill into a 75 m open sky tank…

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…