Regions and Countries: Netherlands

The event occurred at the chlorine drying towers. The towers, made of PVC, exploded suddenly and violently in a mercury amalgam cell chlorine plant. Because of failure of the electrical power system…

In a chlorine manufacturing unit, an explosion occurs in the room of the electrolysis cells. The accident occurs during the start-up phase of the unit, it is due to the presence of hydrogen in the…

The FCEV driver did hit a pole with the left front at a relative low speed.

Fire broke out along a transition corridor combining several underground pipelines transporting hazardous substances, including hydrogen, kerosene and ethylene oxide. The fire was brought under…

Fire in an ammonia plantA fire broke out in the hydrogen section of ammonia plant.

The hydrogen bus was in the workshop. The fire started on the bus and expanded to the shed, which was containing also a conventional bus. Due to the presence of hydrogen, the fire brigade intervened…

A truckload of hydrogen cylinders caught fire at plant producing artificial sweetener.

While filling a 9 litre gas cylinder with pressurised hydrogen in the hydrogen storage area, a blast occurred which destroyed the low pressure gauge, followed by a jet fire which damaged the…

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…

The fire developed on one of two naphtha crackers The rupture of the reactor made that the hydrogen, petroleum products and the pyrophoric catalyst came outside the reactor. The mixture immediately…

A hydrogen leak took place on a trailer carrying compressed hydrogen, located inside the fenced perimeter of a hydrogen station. According to the company managing the hydrogen delivery and refuelling…

A truck conventional truck moved to another lane and did not see the FCEV. The collision caused a total loss to the latter.