Liquid Hydrogen Release from a Truck (943)
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 subcontractor, carried out a nitrogen sweep of the hose before cooling it, and were pressurizing the H2 before unloading when they saw a white cloud. The drivers closed the bottom valve of the container and the upstream and downstream valves of the heater before evacuating the area and sounding the alarm.