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TYPE OF INDUSTRY

MAJOR FAILURES

YEAR

LOCATION

CAUSES

DAMAGES

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

1. Miller Park Crane Mobile Crane Collapse

1999

Milwaukee Brewers new baseball stadium

This was as a result of king pin bottom end cap assembly developing radial fractures in its top hat bushing flange.

Losses of finance in terms of hundreds of millions.

Death of three ironworkers at the site.

2. 210-foot Tower Crane Collapse

2006

Washington in Bellevue downtown

Under-designed steel based frame led to fatigue in the steel frame hence resulted to the collapse of the 210- foot Tower Crane

It claimed the life of a man during the demolition.

3. Tower Crane Collapse

2008

Manhattan in the streets of 303 East 51 st Street

The major cause of the crane failure was as a result of using four inappropriate synthetic slings.

Claimed the lives of seven, six construction workers and one civilian.

It demolished four story brownstone on East 50th street.

It also brought damages to more than dozen buildings in the neighborhood of East Side.

4. 20 ft section of a crane tower collapsed

2008

Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida

The cause was as a result of failure of cable which led to overload hence instability of the crane.

The collapse killed two people.

It damaged two story houses during the collapse.

5. Crane cab of a tower crane collapsed

2008

Manhattan in the streets of 335 East 91 st Street

Poor welding of the turntable for the cab which made it loose.

Two men were killed during the incident.

Demolished two buildings upon its collapse.

6. Mobile Cherry Picker type Crane collapse

2009

Pennsylvania in Philadelphia downtown

Error due to operator resulted to this collapse. This was because the street hole cover was overloaded due to the collapsing of the fiberglass street hole cover below one of the crane wheels

Instant death of the crane operator.

It demolished an apartment during its toppling incident.

7. Tropicana Casino parking garage

2003

Atlantic City

Caused by alteration of the initial design whereby the individual rebar rods were swapped for factory-mde 8’ rebar mats.

Led to death of four people and more than twenty injured.

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES

1. Collapsing of the Pemberton Mills

1860

Lawrence in Massachusetts

This was as a result of defected iron pillars and under-strength mortar.

Led to over a hundred wounded, two hundred persons killed and burned a hundred individuals.

2.The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

1911

New York city

Suspected cigarette butt possibly caused the fire.

One hundred and forty six employees died.

3. Enschede fireworks explosion

2000

Eastern Dutch city in Netherlands

Illegal fireworks bunker ignition which caused the explosion of tons of fireworks.

Twenty three people including some firefighters were killed and four hundred houses were destroyed leaving a lot of people homeless.

4.BP Texas city Refinery Explosion

2005

Texas city in America

Flooding of distillation tower with hydrocarbons causing explosion.

Led to death of fifteen workers and one hundred and eighty others injured.

5.Kader Toy Factory Fire

1993

Nakhon Pathom Province of Thailand

The building was constructed with uninsulated steel structure.

Injured four hundred and sixty nine workers and one hundred and eighty eight of them died.

6. Fire outbreak in adhesive Manufacturing Factory

2000

France in Haguenau (67)

The major cause of the fire-outbreak was due to electrostatic discharge. This was due to the transfer of the solvent.

Five people were injured as a result of the fire, destruction of forty tones of toluene and damage cost amounting to eighteen point three million Euros.

ENERGY INDUSTRY

1.Chernobyl nuclear explosion

1986

Ukraine

Occurred in an attempt to experiment a way of cooling the core reactor in an emergency situation.

Led to severe radiation effects which killed fifty people instantly and twenty eight workers in the first four months and environmental contamination.

2.San Juanico disaster

1984

Mexico city

Occurred due to pipe rupture during transfer operations, caused by excess pressure.

Destruction of a number of houses leaving a lot of people homeless and over five hundred people died as well.

3.The Windscale Nuclear Disaster

1957

Cumberland in England

Graphite controls blocks caused uranium cartridges rupture which oxidized and caused fire.

Led to the release of radioactive substance to the atmosphere.

4.Ixtoc oil spill

1979

Campeche Bay in Mexico

Oil and gas gushed to a higher feet above the normal feet causing an explosion of fire to the platform.

Caused economic hardship and loss of marine organisms lives

5.Romeoville Refinery Explosion and Fire

1984

Romeoville in Illinois

Metallurgical testing that was performed after the explosion indicated that there were several cracks in the vessel walls at least four years before occurrence of the accident. .

MINING INDUSTRY

1.Baia Mare Gold Mine Cyanide Spill

2000

North Western Romania

Was caused by the walls that were made of soil containing high amounts of sand instead of rocky materials thus making it unstable.

Extensive damage to river Tisza ecosystem and its fauna, cyanide pollution to the river posed a threat to the human health as well

2.Aberfan Disaster

1966

Merthyr Tydfil in Wales

The cause was underground spring and heavy rains which caused the coal waste on the mountain to loosen

More than one hundred and thirty people mainly children were buried by the coal slag and eighty five of them died.

3.Nambija mine disaster

1993

Southeastern Ecuador

Part of the mountain gave way causing a landslide due to high level of mining in the area and torrential rains that were experienced before the disaster

About three hundred people were buried by the landslide due to high level of mining activities in the area.

4.Pike river mine disaster

2010

New Zealand

Suspected that explosion was most likely caused by a roof fall in the hydro mining area which hence pushed accumulated methane into the mine causing fire.

Led to the death of forty three workers while others sustained injuries from the mine explosion.

5.Val di Stava Dam collapse

1985

Italy

Stability of the dam was poor and this was made worse by the excessive height and poor inclination of the dam.

Demolished eight bridges and destroyed sixty two buildings. It also led to the death of two hundred and sixty eight people.

6.The Soma Mine Disaster

2014

Turkey

Negligence to safety measures and depletion of oxygen in the shaft were the cause of the disaster.

Three hundred workers were killed and others injured.

7.The Deneen Mica Disaster

1974

North Carolina in United States

The foundation structures of the dam failed due to excessive weight caused by an increase in rain in the previous year.

Led to immerse release of tailings which traveled twenty five kilometers down the stream

8.The church Rock Dam Disaster

1979

New Mexico in United States

The disaster was caused by the breaching of the wall due to poor foundation.

Caused the contamination of Rio Puerco sediments till one hundred and ten kilometers downstream.

9.Malvesi,Aude Dam collapse

2004

France

Was due to heavy rains the year before the incident and thus the foundations of the dam could not withstand the extra weight.

Led to higher concentrations of nitrate in the Tauran Canal.

10.Kingston Fossil Plant Harriman

2008

Tennessee in USA

Was caused by a layer of undetected layer of unstable ash sludge.

Damaged twelve homes leaving individuals homeless and the ash slide covered roads making transportation a problem.

FOOD INDUSTRY

1.Georgia Sugar Refinery Explosion

2008

Port Wentworth in United States

Sugar dust is believed to have been the cause of the explosion

Fourteen people were killed and thirty six workers were treated for serious burned and injuries.

2.The great molasses flood

1919

Boston

The tank walls holding the molasses was to tiny hence could not withstand the volume of the molasses.

It smashed multiple houses causing a lot of destructions and economic loss and led to the death of twenty one people. More than a hundred individuals sustained injuries.