A car driving out from a private street hits the bus on the its right side just behind the rear tires
When filled with air, a tyre of a car suddenly exploded, and the car was burned out. The car illegally carried the hydrogen cylinders. Hydrogen leaked from the cylinders and was thought to be ignited…
A car was overtaking the bus and damaged its rear-left side
A hydrogen compressor had a major malfunction resulting in serious cavitations, vibrations and dead heading of the 1st stage. The incident resulted in 5 of the 8 lower head bolts on the first stage…
An employee was preparing a batch of glycol stearate emulsifier in a vessel. Upon completion of product, the quality control lab reported that the pH was too high and the product needed to be…
The incident occurred in a pharmaceutical plant. A disk ruptured on the vent of a reactor and the reaction mixture was projected onto a frontage of the synthesis workshop. It caused a spill of 700 l…
(WARNING, UNCLEAR IF H2 WAS INVOLVED)The explosion occurred in a chemical reactor tank of a plant (SEVESO low level) manufacturing products for medical imaging. According to the investigation, the…
During chlorine-alkali electrolysis an accident occurred in which chlorine was released due to a chlorine-hydrogen explosion. The person charged with the control of the measurements was informed by…
A frontal road collision between a truck transporting pressurised hydrogen gas and a carBoth vehicles were projected into the fields, on each side of the road. No leakage of hydrogen gas was observed…
Collision between a hydrogen and fuel cells bus and a private car. The car was overtaking the bus and damaged its rear, left side.
The passenger car rolled down the road without driver and hit the hydrogen bus.
The driver of a hydrogen bus reversed into a post.There was some small material damage to the bus. No leakage of hydrogen (or other gases) occurred.
The bus drove into the garage and collided with a folded-out safety barrier. The upper corner of the roof was damaged. Also the first hydrogen tank was affected by the collision but without any…
damage of shipping containers of a ship, reaction of phosphor pentoxide with wine leads to phosphoric acid and hydrogen
high pressure spherical vessel, stress corrosion stressing by hydrogen, leakage along the weld, release of H2-CH4 mixture
Discharge pressure of a hydrogen compressor on a chloride plant fell to alarm level without any prior warning and simultaneously three bumps were heard.Smoke was seen coming from the hot motor…
A fire started on the brakes of a truck carrying hydrogen. Due to the risk of extension of the fire to the hydrogen, the fire brigade install an emergency area until the fire is extinguished.There…
A conventional truck drove into a FCEV. The left rear side was damaged. There were no injuries and no hydrogen released. The car body needed to be repaired and the receptacle and the hydrogen tube…
This near miss occurred at metal smelting unit of a foundry. At 9:45 a.m., due to a power outage, the cooling pumps of two furnaces containing nickel and chromium stopped. One of the two furnaces…
The truck was carrying cylinders of nitrogen (N2), oxygen (O2), hydrogen (H2) and acetylene on a national road. It struck the right protection, then the concrete-reinforced central division, and…
Due to the road accident there was the formation of a fire that involved the hydrogen tube trailer and some other vehicles (involved in the incident).Moreover due to the crash there was the formation…
The HRS canopy was lower than the forecourt canopy. heavy duty vehicles were not noticing the issue and hitting the HRS canopy assuming same height.The canopy has now been repaired twice, and the…
A deflagration occurred during shutdown of a reactor used for ammonia synthesis. It was followed by a jet fire. The hydrogen leak was probably due first to the lower seals, followed by another leak…
In a chlorine electrolysis facility, a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen in one of the electrolyzer cells a short-circuit ignited causing a deflagration. The cover of the cell was a thin plastic film…
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…
One of the two dispensers at a refuelling station for buses shutdown at a refuelling station. The dispenser company were called and confirmed there was an issue with the dispenser. The station…
This entry refer to a series of events occurred before the date given, which corresponds to the publication of the evidences at the Int. Conference on Hydrogen Safety 2015. The nozzle/receptacle…
Electric spark ignited hydrogen in a captive advertising balloon.
This near miss occurred at a CHP plant operation with a SOFC. During the heating phase, the SOFC stopped due to the opening of the mainpower switch.This was due to a contact problem inside the SOFC…
The incident aoccurred ina biogas-fed Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Stationary system, working in CHP mode.A sudden stop of the biogas feeding line caused the safety shutdown of the plant (SOFC module).The…
