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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

The truck overturned and lost vacuum insulation. The hydrogen boiled and vented, but there was no ignition. The potential for fire or explosion, however, led to precautions that did cause…

This accident happened on the SS66 road and involved a trailer transporting compressed hydrogen cylinders. The 50 l cylinders were in packages of 16 cylinders each. Due to the breaking of fixing…

Explosion in an open road. 6 people suffered minor burns on faces or hands.

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

A petroleum refinery experienced a catastrophic rupture of a heat exchanger in the catalytic reformer / naphtha hydrotreater unit (the NHT unit). The heat exchanger, catastrophically ruptured because…

The event occurred just after that start-up steam was introduced into the reformer furnace inlet. At this moment an very high pressure and a single loud bang was reported by the operations personnel…

Following a trip caused by the safeguarding of an ammonia production line, the syngas released into the atmosphere and ignited.

The release of a blast furnace gas occurred at a section of pipework, due to the rupture of valve seal. The gas did not ignite and the fire service attended as a precaution. The gas was both…

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…

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

In the collective treatment plant of a chemical platform, the truck tank of 25 m containing hydrochloric acid (HCl) rose in pressure at 11 am; leakage of acid solution and gas evolution occurred in…