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A lorry crashed into a hydrogen tube trailer with considerable speed on the highway A1 near Cologne. The lorry driver was killed. Gas escaped from tubes and valves of three of the nine tanks and was…

A Worner 1000 STU gas balloon, of German registry D-OAGH, piloted by a commercial pilot was substantially damaged during landing, when the hydrogen-filled envelope came in contact with a power line,…

The incident involves a gas booster provided by a manufacturer. This device is used in the experimental platform of the project to raise the pressure in pipelines from 60 to 80 barg (from 6 to 8 MPa…

A jet fire occurred on the ammonia production unit, caused by a leak on a hydrogen pipe. No victims.

A mixture of mainly carbon monoxide and hydrogen was released from a pipeline transferring process gases in a not further specified unit of a chemical plant, generating a flammable mixture which…

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…

FCEV left front side of the vehicle damaged.

The left rear side of the FCEV vehicle was damage.

At about 9:50 a.m., a lightning strike ignited hydrogen exiting a stack in a chemical factory. This hydrogen, produced by the chlorine electrolysis cells, is conveyed to the stack when the…

The whole content of the rail tanker, that is 42,000 l (about 2600 kg) of liquid hydrogen, was entirely lost over a period of seven hours via the venting line of a tank. The accident occurred at a…

The tanker truck was carrying nearly 13,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen. it hit the base of a light pole in the parking lot of a local grocery store as the driver was attempting to turn around.…

The leak occurred on a 44 m vehicle of liquid hydrogen during a delivery to the unloading station of a steel plant. The truck drivers had connected the tank container to the fixed storage managed by…

A 9000 gal (34 m3) LH2 storage tank exploded during repair of the vent stack. Few days before the explosion, the tank had been filled with LH2, but later on the hydrogen released and ignited at the…

At a refuelling station for buses, the first dispenser had been taken out of operation, becasue leaking (see HIAD event 403). Another dispenser was being used. Fuelling was taking too long and was…

The non-destructive analyses performed in a refinery revealed material degradation of the steel components. The opening of the equipment confirmed the diagnostic : blisters were visible on metal…

Minor car crash involving a FCEV, damaging its front bumper.No injury or harm was caused to the driver or anyone else.

A motor scooter striped the left side of a hydrogen and fuel cells bus .

A motor scooter scratched the left side of a hydrogen bus

Motorway accident which involved a large quantity of vehicles and a gaseous tube trailer which transported gas hydrogen in pressure. Some cars were burning under the back part of the gaseous tube…

In 1987, well diggers had drilled a well for water, but had given up on one dry borehole at a depth of 108 meters. According to the source reported in the References, wind was coming out of the hole…