HIAD Event Initiating System: Non-Hydrogen System Initiating Event

An accident involving a truck hauling liquid hydrogen closed an interstate highway for two hours.

The right front side of a FCEV was hit by another car.

A 40,000-litre capacity tanker lorry carrying liquid hydrogen tipped over into a ditch on a curve in an intersection while travelling on a municipal road at the edge of town. The lorry had just left…

The vehicle was being driven in traffic at low speed when it was struck from behind by a full-size pickup which forced the fuel-cell vehicle forward into another pickup. No hydrogen was released and…

A truck carrying 300 cylinders of hydrogen ran off the road and overturned in a nearby field causing 1 casualty. The fire fighting were on site, the truck was lifted back in the right position

A minor fire broke out following a gas leak from hydrogen cylinders. A truck was returning to the base company after offloading hydrogen cylinders at a factory. The driver lost control and crashed…

A rollover accident involving a tanker truck carrying 12,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen forced the evacuation of nearly 50 homes.

Ejection of rotor wedge material lead to vibration induced failure of components, including hydrogen seals. Serious fire resulted from hydrogen leakage, which subsequently lead to an oil fire.…

A severe fire in a hydrogen compressor building in a unifier unit of an oil sands refinery reportedly started in a 1,500 psi lube oil system. Fire fighting was difficult because of 40 degrees F…

On 17 February 2000, THOR EMILIE was lost. The ship had been chartered by a Swiss company to carry about 2,000 tonnes of oxide zinc ore in bulk from Dunkerque in France to Porto Vesme on Sardinia.…

A short circuit developed in the wiring of a fire eye system on one of two 600 psig boilers serving a refinery. This triggered a rapid sequence of events that resulted in a one week shutdown of much…

In a plant producing calcium carbide (CaO + 3C -> CaC2 + CO), a dust collector clogged, probably due to the failure of the cleaning device (nitrogen nozzles) which allowed the dust to build a…

On may 23, 1984 between 8:50 and 8:55 pm, employee #1, a dye beam operator, was drawing concentrated sulfuric acid into a plastic pail. He added to this pail the contents of a "drip pail" which had…

An empty 100-m reservoir of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) exploded at 9:15 am at a chemical site. Installed directly above its retention basin at a height of several metres, this reservoir was projected and…

To repair a corroded flange on a 4500 liter sulfuric acid bowser outlet pipe, an angle grinder was being used to prepare the surface for welding. Within a few seconds of starting work there was a…

Traffic accident with heavy rain.Four persons were killed when a pickup track collided head-on with a liquid hydrogen tanker in heavy rain.

Transport collision between hydrogen trailer and car, without hydrogen release. (R. G. Zalosh and T. P. Short, COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HYDROGEN FIRE AND EXPLOSION INCIDENTS, Quarterly Report No. 2…

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

Truck moving backwards hit a hydrogen and fuel cells bus and damaged its side mirror.

A gaseous tube trailer gone off road in a countryside area and landed on one side. All cylinders were loaded to a pressure of 200 bars. The impact with the ground has caused the rupture of a high…