List of accidents and disasters by death toll
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This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions, structural fires, flood disasters, coal mine disasters, and other notable accidents caused by the effects of negligence of the human race connected to improper architecture, planning, construction, design, and more. Purposeful disasters, such as terrorist attacks, are omitted; those events can be found at List of battles and other violent events by death toll.
While all of the listed accidents caused immediately massive amounts of lives lost, further widespread deaths were connected to many of these incidents, often the result of prolonged or lingering effects of the initial catastrophe. This was the case particularly in such cases as exposure to contaminated air, toxic chemicals or radiation, some years later due to lung damage, cancer, etc. Some numbers in the table below reflect both immediate and delayed deaths related to accidents, while many do not.
Amusement parks[]
Deaths | Date | Attraction | Amusement park | Location |
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28 | 14 February 2004 | Transvaal Park (entire facility affected); the roof of the indoor water park collapsed | Transvaal Park | Yasenevo, Moscow, Russia[1] |
15 | 27 June 2015 | Formosa Fun Coast music stage; a dust explosion on a music stage; over 400 others injured | Formosa Fun Coast | Bali, New Taipei, Taiwan[2] |
8 | 11 May 1984 | Haunted Castle; a fire caused by a cigarette lighter igniting the flammable foam-rubber walls of the facility | Six Flags Great Adventure | Jackson Township, New Jersey, United States[3] |
7 | 9 June 1979 | Ghost Train; a fire at the park's ghost train ride caused by either faulty wiring or sabotage | Luna Park Sydney | Sydney, Australia[4] |
7 | 14 August 1981 | Skylab; a crane collided with the Skylab carousel; fifteen injured | Hamburger Dom | Hamburg, (Germany)[5][6] |
6 | 13 August 1944 | Virginia Reel; a fire at the facility; 125 injured | Palisades Amusement Park | Cliffside Park-Fort Lee, New Jersey, United States[7] |
6 | 29 June 2010 | Eco-Adventure Valley Space Journey; a malfunction at a rocket launch ride; ten injured | OCT East | Yantian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China[8] |
5 | 30 May 1972 | Big Dipper; the roller coaster broke free from its haulage rope; thirteen injured | Battersea Park | Battersea, London, England[9] |
5 | 23 June 2017 | Kuzuluk Aquapark swimming pool; five people died after being electrocuted in the swimming pool | Kuzuluk Aquapark | Akyazi, Turkey[10] |
4 | 24 July 1930 | Big Dipper; a bolt came loose from the roller coaster; seventeen injured | Krug Park | Omaha, Nebraska, United States[11][12] |
4 | 25 October 2016 | Thunder River Rapids Ride; one of the rafts at the ride flipped upside down and became wedged under a conveyor belt | Dreamworld | Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia[13] |
3 | 14 June 1986 | Mindbender; one of the roller coaster carriages failed and crashed into a concrete pillar | Galaxyland | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada[14] |
3 | 26 July 1978 | Skyway; a gondola detached from its cable and plunged to the ground | Six Flags St. Louis | Eureka, Missouri, United States[15] |
Aviation[]
Deaths | Date | Incident | Location |
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583 | 27 March 1977 | Tenerife airport disaster | Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain[16] |
520 | 12 August 1985 | Japan Airlines Flight 123 | Ueno, Japan[17] |
349 | 12 November 1996 | Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision | Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, India[18][19] |
346 | 3 March 1974 | Turkish Airlines Flight 981 | Fontaine-Chaalis, France[20] |
301 | 19 August 1980 | Saudia Flight 163 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia[21] |
298 | 17 July 2014 | Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 | Hrabove, Ukraine[22] |
290 | 3 July 1988 | Iran Air Flight 655 | Bandar Abbas, Iran[citation needed] |
275 | 19 February 2003 | 2003 Iran Ilyushin Il-76 crash | Kerman, Iran[23] |
273 | 25 May 1979 | American Airlines Flight 191 | Des Plaines, Illinois, United States[24] |
269 | 1 September 1983 | Korean Air Lines Flight 007 | Sea of Japan, west of Sakhalin, Soviet Union[25] |
265 | 12 November 2001 | American Airlines Flight 587 | Queens, New York, United States[26] |
Cable transport[]
Deaths | Date | Incident | Location |
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155 | 11 November 2000 | Kaprun disaster[27] | Kaprun, Austria |
43 | 9 March 1976 | 1976 Cavalese cable car crash[28] | Cavalese, Italy |
20 | 1 June 1990 | Tbilisi cable car crash[29] | Tbilisi, Georgia |
20 | 3 February 1998 | 1998 Cavalese cable car crash[30] | Cavalese, Italy |
20 | 1 July 1999 | Saint-Étienne-en-Dévoluy cable car crash[31] | Saint-Étienne-en-Dévoluy, France |
14 | 3 October 1999 | Maling River Gorge cable car crash[32] | Xingyi, Guizhou, China |
14 | 23 May 2021 | Stresa–Mottarone cable car crash[33] | Mottarone, Italy |
13 | 12 July 1972 | Bettmeralp cable car crash[34][35] | Bettmeralp, Switzerland |
12 | 29 June 2017 | Charra Pani cable car crash[36] | Charra Pani, Galyat, Pakistan |
11 | 13 February 1983 | Champoluc cable car crash[37] | Champoluc, Italy |
Elevator incidents[]
Deaths | Injuries | Date | Incident | Location |
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104 | 0 | 10 May 1995 | Vaal Reefs Tragedy: A locomotive crashed through a safety barrier and fell into a mine shaft, hitting an elevator which was carrying 104 workers and causing it to plunge to the bottom of the shaft.[38][39] | ![]() |
52 | 0 | 31 August 1987 | A methane gas explosion at the St. Helena gold mine severed the cable of a double-deck elevator, causing it to fall 1.4 kilometers to the bottom of the mine shaft, killing all 52 people on board. 10 others who were not in the elevator were killed in the explosion.[40][41] | ![]() |
19 | 0 | 13 September 2012 | An elevator fell about 100 meters at a construction site, killing everyone on board.[42] | ![]() |
19 | 1 | 10 October 1932 | A mine-shaft elevator carrying 20 people fell at the Bickershaw Colliery, killing all but one person.[43][44] | ![]() |
18 | 11 | 30 July 1973 | A mine-shaft elevator fell at the Markham Colliery.[45] | ![]() |
12 | 0 | 30 October 2008 | An elevator plunged to the ground at a construction site.[46] | ![]() |
12 | 0 | 2 June 1993 | An elevator plunged to the ground from the 20th floor at a construction site.[47] | ![]() |
11 | 2 | 25 April 2019 | An elevator fell at a construction site due to a snapped cable.[48] | ![]() |
11 | 4 | 29 July 2011 | A mine-shaft elevator fell at the Bazhanov coal mine.[49] | ![]() |
10 | 5 | 27 March 1964 | A steel cable hit a mine-shaft elevator at the Sachsen coal mine, killing 10 workers, including 5 Turkish nationals.[50] | ![]() |
10 | 0 | 6 September 2014 | An elevator plunged 32 stories at a construction site.[51] | ![]() |
Explosions[]
Deaths | Date | Incident |
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20,000 | 30 May 1626 | Wanggongchang Explosion in Beijing, China in the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people[52] |
3,000 | 18 August 1769 | A lightning bolt caused the Brescia explosion of a gunpowder depot in Brescia (Italy), destroying one-sixth of the city[53][54] |
3,000? | 1 November 1948 | Boiler and ammunition explosion aboard an unidentified merchant ship evacuating troops of the Republic of China Army from Yingkou, China for Taiwan in early November 1948[55][disputed ] Other sources suggest this figure is inaccurate.[56] |
1,400–2,280 | 6 March 1862 | Ammunition warehouse explodes and kills almost all of Oaxaca brigade, in San Andres Chalchicomula, Mexico, during the first days of Second French intervention in Mexico[57] |
1,950 | 6 December 1917 | Halifax Explosion in Nova Scotia, Canada[58] |
1,500 | 5 June 1941 | Smederevo Fortress explosion of stockpiled ammunition at Smederevo Fortress near Belgrade in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia[59] |
256–1,500+ | 16 September 1732 | Military warehouse explodes and kills up to two-thirds of the population of Campo Maior district of Portalegre, Portugal[60][61] |
1,300+ | 7 August 1956 | Ammunition trucks explode near a railway station in Cali, Colombia[62] |
1,200 | 16 October 1926 | Explosion of ammunition on the Chinese troopship Kuang Yuang, near Kiukiang, China[63] |
1,121 | 8 June 1943 | Japanese battleship Mutsu, at Hashirajima harbor, 1943 due to magazine explosion; ship sank on 9 June |
1,100 | 27 January 2002 | Lagos Armoury Explosion, in Lagos, Nigeria; many deaths were from drowning during the resulting panic |
1,082 | 18 October 1998 | Jesse pipeline explosion, near Lagos, Nigeria |
1,007 | 18 November 1918 | Ammunition transporter explosion in Hamont, Belgium |
1,000+ | 31 August 1794 | Explosion of a gunpowder factory in Grenelle, France |
843 | 9 July 1917 | Propellant explosion of the British dreadnought battleship HMS Vanguard |
800 | 14 April 1944 | Bombay Docks Explosion in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India |
738 | 26 November 1914 | British pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Bulwark destroyed due to a magazine explosion |
700 | 17 August 1989 | Iraqi military plant with facilities explode at Al Hillah, Babil, Iraq |
621 | 27 February 1925 | Explosion of a dynamite depot in Brazil.[64] |
600+ | 28 March 1943 | Explosion of the Caterina Costa, at port of Naples; over 3000 were also injured |
590 | 3 November 1893 | Explosion of the Cabo Machichaco, at the port of Santander, Cantabria, Spain, with over 2000 injured.[65] |
581 | 16 April 1947 | Texas City disaster in the Port of Texas City; over 5,000 were also injured. |
575 | 4 June 1989 | Ufa train disaster in Ufa, Soviet Union. |
565 | 21 September 1921 | Oppau explosion at a BASF plant in Germany; possibly as many as 1,500 were killed |
542 | 9 April 1945 | SS Charles Henderson ammunition explosion at Bari, Italy; 1,800 injured |
508 | 25 February 1984 | A gasoline pipeline exploded in the favela of Vila Sao Jose, Cubatão, Brazil[66][67] |
500+ | 19 November 1984 | San Juanico Disaster, in Mexico City, Mexico |
372 | 11 December 1944 | Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood exploded at Seeadler Harbor, killing 372 and injuring 371 |
370+ | 27 July 1816 | Powder magazine in Negro Fort in Spanish Florida exploded during battle with United States forces. |
339 | 11 September 1905 | Japanese battleship Mikasa explosion of magazine (artillery) while at port |
322 | 17 July 1944 | Port Chicago disaster at Port Chicago, California, United States |
300 (estimate) | 25 September 1911 | An explosion occurred on the French battleship Liberté |
296+ | 18 March 1937 | New London School explosion at New London, Texas, United States |
246+ | 4 March 2012 | Brazzaville arms dump blasts at Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo |
235+ | 29 December 2001 | Fireworks stand explosion in Lima, Peru. 235 bodies recovered, 144+ taken to hospital due to burns.[68] |
234 | 23 December 2003 | PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Chongqing, China |
233 | 20 October 1916 | Russian battleship Imperatritsa Mariya magazine explosion |
230+ | 2 July 2010 | South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
220 | 11 December 1944 | Gunpowder explosion on the train doing Japanese military and civilian transportation, Itoman, Okinawa, Japan.[69] |
219 | 25 June 2017 | Bahawalpur explosion, an oil truck exploded in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. |
217 | 11 July 1978 | Los Alfaques disaster, in Sant Carles de la Ràpita, Spain |
215 | 4 August 2020 | 2020 Beirut explosion, Beirut, Lebanon |
207 | 28 July 1948 | 1948 BASF tank car explosion, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany; 3,818 were also injured[70] |
206 | 22 April 1992 | Gas explosions in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
200+ | 18 July 1806 | Gunpowder magazine explosion, Birgu, Malta |
200+ | 6 June 1991 | Gotera ammunition dump explosion in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
200+ | 4 June 2015 | Gas station explosion in Accra, Ghana |
200 | 2 December 1984 | Gas explosion in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic |
200 | 1 May 1900 | Scofield Mine disaster in Scofield, Utah, United States, caused by a dust explosion |
200 | 27 February 1908 | Mina Rosita Vieja disaster, San Juan de Sabinas, Coahuila, Mexico |
189 | 29 April 1942 | Tessenderlo, Tessenderlo Chemie ammonium nitrate explosion, Belgium |
181 | 12 August 2015 | Series of explosions at a container storage station in the Port of Tianjin in Tianjin, China |
180 | 26 August 1990 | Tuzla, Dobrnja-Jug mine disaster, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia |
171 | 15 February 1991 | A trailer truck carrying dynamite exploded after a crash at Thung Maphrao, Phang Nga, Thailand |
166 | 28 November 2004 | Chenjiashan, Tongchuan, Shaanxi, China |
163 | 21 May 1944 | West Loch Disaster, where the tank landing ship LST-353 exploded at West Loch, Hawaii, United States while handling ammunition |
160 | 20 April 1944 | Vågen explosion in Norway |
159 | 26 September 2000 | Muchonggou, Shuicheng, Guizhou, China |
154 | 22 April 2004 | Ryongchon disaster in North Korea |
153 | 1 January 1982 | Tacoa Disaster (Tacoa Power Plant, Arrecife, Venezuela) |
151 | 12 January 1807 | Gunpowder ship disaster in Leiden, the Netherlands |
151 | 9 July 1930 | Hausdorf, Germany (currently Jugów, Poland) |
150 | 2 November 1773 | Gunpowder explosion in Abbeville, France |
150 | 18 August 1947 | Spanish Naval torpedo and landmine factory exploded at Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain |
150 | 28 March 2011 | Jaʿār munitions factory explosion in Abyan Governorate, Yemen[71] |
Industrial disasters[]
Deaths | Date | Incident |
---|---|---|
3,787–16,000 | 2–3 December 1984 | Bhopal disaster at Union Carbide (now Dow Chemicals) factory, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India |
1,549 | 26 April 1942 | Benxihu Colliery explosion, China |
1,134 | 24 April 2013 | Collapse of the Rana Plaza, Savar Upazila, Dhaka District, Bangladesh[72] |
1,099 | 10 March 1906 | Courrières mine disaster, Courrières, France |
687 | 15 December 1914 | Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine disaster, Kyūshū, Japan |
682 | 9 May 1960 | Laobaidong colliery coal dust explosion Datong, China |
581 | 16 April 1947 | Texas City Disaster, Texas City, Texas, U.S. |
512 | 28 August 1899 | Sumitomo Besshi bronze mine area, landslide with debris flow disaster, Niihama, Shikoku, Japan |
500+ | 19 November 1984 | San Juanico Disaster, Mexico City, Mexico[73] |
476–1,000 | 1931 | Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, United States |
458 | 9 November 1963 | Mitsui Miike Coal Mine disaster Mitsui Miike, Ōmuta, Fukuoka, Japan[74] |
439 | 14 October 1913 | Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, Senghenydd, Wales |
437 | 21 January 1960 | Coalbrook mining disaster, Coalbrook, South Africa |
426 | 6 June 1972 | Wankie coal mine disaster Wankie, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe |
422 | 28 November 1914 | New Yubari, Yūbari, Hokkaidō, Japan |
405 | 20 February 1946 | Bergkamen mining disaster, West Germany |
388 | 12 December 1866 | Oaks Colliery, Barnsley, England |
376 | 21 December 1917 | Onoura, Kirino, Kyūshū, Japan |
375 | 28 May 1965 | Mine explosion caused by Methane gas near Dhanbad, Bihar, India[75] |
372 | 27 December 1975 | Chasnala mining disaster, Sudamdih Colliery Dhanbad, India |
365 | 20 July 1907 | Hokoku, Itoda, Kyūshū, Japan |
362 | 6 December 1907 | Monongah Mining disaster, Monongah, West Virginia, U.S. |
344 | 21 December 1910 | Pretoria Pit Disaster, Westhoughton, England |
319 | 31 May 1892 | Marie ore mine fire, Příbram, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) |
301 | 13 May 2014 | Soma mine disaster, Manisa, Turkey |
300+ | 11 September 2012 | 2012 Pakistan garment factory fires, Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan |
300+ | 9 May 1993 | Nambija mine disaster, landslide destroying several mines and buildings, Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador |
299[76] | 7 February 1962 | Luisenthal Mining Disaster, Saarland, West Germany |
290 | 23 June 1894 | Fire and explosion in Albion Colliery, Wales |
277 | 8 September 2008 | 2008 Shanxi mudslide caused by collapse of a mine landfill in Xiangfen, Linfen, Shanxi, China[77] |
268 | 11 September 1878 | Abercarn colliery disaster Abercarn, Wales |
266 | 22 September 1934 | Gresford Disaster Gresford, Wales |
263 | 22 October 1913 | Dawson, New Mexico, U.S. (first disaster) |
263 | 3 March 1992 | Incirharmani, Kozlu, Zonguldak, Turkey |
262 | 8 August 1956 | Marcinelle, Belgium |
259 | 13 November 1909 | 1909 Cherry Mine disaster, Cherry, Illinois, U.S. |
254 | 11 November 1937 | Kogushi sulfur mine collapse, western Gunma, Japan |
243 | 5 August 1909 | Onoura, Kirino, Kyūshū, Japan |
243 | 25 December 2003 | PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China[78] |
239 | 19 December 1907 | Darr Mine Disaster, Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
236 | 1 June 1965 | Chikuho Yamano, Kyūshū, Japan |
235 | 14 June 1894 | Larisch's mines (Jan and Františka), Karviná, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) |
220 | 28 March 1965 | El Cobre tailing dam and copper mine failure by earthquake in Chile |
216 | 19 May 1902 | Fraterville, Tennessee, U.S. |
214 | 15 February 2005 | 2005 Sunjiawan mine disaster, Sunjiawan, Fuxin, Liaoning, China |
210 | 15 June 1899 | Hokoku, Itoda, Kyūshū, Japan |
204 | 16 January 1862 | Hartley Colliery Disaster, New Hartley, Northumberland, England |
202 | 25 May 1917 | Bolevec ammunition factory explosion, Pilsen, Bohemia, now in Czech Republic |
200+ | 1 May 1900 | Scofield Mine disaster, Scofield, Utah, U.S. |
200+ | 27 February 1908 | Mina Rosita Vieja disaster, San Juan de Sabinas, Coahuila, Mexico |
200 | 1880 | Renard mine, Sosnowiec, Poland |
189 | 19 June 1914 | Hillcrest mine disaster, Hillcrest, Alberta, Canada |
185 | 28 February 1940 | Explosion in Raša coal mine, Raša, Istria County, Croatia |
183 | 3 February 1942 | Chosei, Ube, Japan |
181 | 17 August 2007 | Mine disaster with flooding, Huayuan, Xintai, Shandong, China |
180 | 26 August 1990 | Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
178 | 8 November 1867 | Mining explosion in Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales |
177 | 16 September 1986 | Kinross gold mine fire, Transvaal, South Africa[79] |
177 | March 1941 | Mitsubishi Bibai, Bibai, Hokkaidō, Japan |
176 | 6 February 1890 | Gas explosion in Cwmnantddu, near Pontypool, Wales |
174 | 27 February 1950 | Yilou Mine, Henan, China |
169 | 3 June 1903 | Hanna Mine Disaster, Hanna, Wyoming, U.S. |
168 | 8 June 1917 | Speculator Mine disaster, Butte, Montana, U.S. |
167 | 6 July 1988 | Piper Alpha oil rig disaster North Sea |
166 | 28 November 2004 | Chenjiashan, Tongchuan, Shaanxi, China |
160+ | 19 December 1982 | Vargas State, Venezuela[citation needed] | ,
159 | 26 September 2000 | Muchonggou, Shuicheng, Guizhou, China |
155 | 12 January 1918 | Minnie Pit, Podmore Hall, Halmer End, Staffordshire, UK |
153 | 31 March 1969 | Mina de Barroterán coal mine disaster, Coahuila, Mexico |
151 | 9 July 1930 | Hausdorf, Germany, now Jugów, Poland |
150 | 3 May 1887 | Nanaimo mine explosion, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada |
Maritime[]
Deaths | Date | Incident |
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1,562–4,386[80] | 20 December 1987 | MV Doña Paz (collision with the oil tanker MT Vector in the Tablas Strait, Philippines, 20 December 1987). Casualty estimates vary because of thousands of off-manifest passengers. |
2,750–3,920 | December 1948 | SS Kiangya (off Shanghai). Estimates of casualties vary due to large number of stowaways on board |
1,863 | 26 September 2002 | MV Le Joola, Senegal |
1,600 | 6 February 1822 | Tek Sing (Near the Belvidere Shoals in the South China Sea) |
1,573 | 10 September 2011 | MV Spice Islander I (Zanzibar Channel) |
1,514 | 15 April 1912 | RMS Titanic (North Atlantic) |
1,500 | 27 January 1949 | Taiping, (East China Sea) |
1,168 | 27 April 1865 | Sultana (Mississippi River) |
1,159 | 26 September 1954 | Tōya Maru (Tsugaru Strait) |
1,024 | 29 May 1914 | RMS Empress of Ireland (Saint Lawrence River) |
1,021 | 15 June 1904 | PS General Slocum (New York, United States) |
1,012 | 3 February 2006 | MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98, (Red Sea) |
1,000 | 22 September 1912 | SS Kiche Maru (off Honshu, Japan) |
1,000 | 22 April 1916 | SS Hsin-Yu (Zhoushan) |
~1,000 | 3/4 March 1921 | SS Hong Moh (South China Sea) |
900 | 16 September 1927 | Wusung (Kuril Islands, Empire of Japan)[81] |
900 | 4–5 October 1744 | HMS Victory (60 miles off Plymouth England near Black Rock) |
894 | 21 May 1996 | MV Bukoba (Lake Victoria, Tanzania) |
852 | 28 September 1994 | MS Estonia (Baltic Sea) |
464–850 | 14 December 1991 | MV Salem Express (Red Sea) |
844 | 24 July 1915 | SS Eastland (Chicago) |
832 | 21 June 2008 | MV Princess of the Stars capsized by Typhoon Fengshen off Sibuyan Island, Philippines, |
829 | 15 February 1760 | HMS Ramillies (Devon, England) |
826 | 22 September 1857 | Lefort (Gulf of Finland) |
800+ | 29 August 1782 | HMS Royal George (Portsmouth, England, ) |
746 | 8 November 1888 | SS Vaitarna (lost in cyclonic storm of coast of Saurashtra, Gujarat, India)[82] |
741 | 12 December 1939 | SS Indigirka (Sarufutsu, Japan, ) |
737 | 6 May 1902 | SS Camorta (Irrawaddy Delta) |
736 | 26 November 1914 | HMS Bulwark (1899) (Sheerness, England) |
731 | 24 December 1811 | HMS St George (Ringkøbing, Denmark) |
702 | 18 January 1738 | Slave trade ship Leusden (Marowijne Suriname) |
673 | 17 March 1800 | HMS Queen Charlotte (Cabrera) |
~640 | 3 September 1878 | SS Princess Alice and SS Bywell Castle (River Thames) |
644 | 2 September 1819 | San Telmo (Drake Passage, Antarctica) |
627 | 28 June 1904 | SS Norge (Rockall) |
625 | 17 July 1947 | 1947 Ramdas Ship Disaster SS Ramdas (Bombay, ) |
608 | 29 October 1955 | Novorossiysk (Sevastopol) |
600+ | List of vessels lost on the Haak Sand on 24 December 1811 | |
600+ | 3 September 1691 | HMS Coronation (West of Penlee Point, Rame, United Kingdom) |
600 | 16–17 September 1782 | HMS Glorieux (Newfoundland, Canada) |
600 | 25 May 1986 | 1986 MV Shamia ferry incident (Meghna River, southern Barisa, Bangladesh) |
583 | 24 December 1811 | HMS Defence (Jutland. Denmark) |
580 | 27 January 1981 | Indonesian passenger ship Tampomas 2 (caught fire and sank in Java Sea) |
575 | 9 January 1920 | SS Afrique (Bay of Biscay) |
570 | 22 December 1810 | HMS Minotaur (off Texel, Netherlands) |
565 | 4 July 1898 | SS La Bourgogne (Sable Island, Nova Scotia) |
564 | 17 March 1891 | SS Utopia (Bay of Gibraltar) |
558 | 5 March 1916 | SS Principe de Asturias (off Brazil) |
550 | 29 June 2000 | Cahaya Bahari (off Sulawesi, Indonesia) |
546 | 1 April 1873 | RMS Atlantic (Nova Scotia) |
533 | 18 September 1890 | Ertuğrul (Kushimoto, Japan) |
528 | 8 July 2003 | MV Nazreen 1 (Chandpur, Bangladesh) |
520 | 14 April 1749 | HMS Namur, (Tamil Nadu, India) |
500 | April 1794 | HMS Ardent (Villefranche-sur-Mer, France) |
500–700 | 16 February 1993 | Ferry Neptune |
500–600 | 25 May 1986 | Shamia (Meghna River, Bangladesh) |
500 | 29 January 1986 | Atlas Star (Dhaleswar River, Munshiganj, Bangladesh) |
Nuclear and radiation accidents[]
Deaths | Date | Incident | Location |
---|---|---|---|
200–6,000 | 29 September 1957 | Mayak nuclear waste storage tank explosion. 270,000 people were exposed to dangerous radiation levels.[83] | Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union |
100–240 | 10 October 1957 | Windscale fire | Windscale, Seascale, Cumbria (now Sellafield), England. [There were no deaths due to deterministic effects (i.e. people receiving a high dose of radiation, rapidly becoming ill, and dying), the 100-240 figure is an estimate of the number of people who died later in life due to cancer caused by radiation from the accident [84]]. |
95–4,000+[85][86] | 26 April 1986 | Chernobyl disaster. The official report is 31 immediate deaths, 64 recorded cancer deaths by 2008, and potentially up to, but no more than 4,000 total cancer deaths.[87] Far higher death toll estimates have been made, but are disputed. | Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
17 | August 2000 – March 2001 | Instituto Oncologico Nacional, patients receiving treatment for cancer receive lethal doses of radiation.[88][89] | Panama City, Panama |
13 | 1996 | 1996 San Juan de Dios radiotherapy accident, 114 patients received an overdose of radiation.[90] | San José, Costa Rica |
11 | December 1990 | 1990 Clinic of Zaragoza radiotherapy accident, (27 patients were injured)[91] | Zaragoza, Spain |
10 | 10 August 1985 | Soviet submarine K-431 accident, (49 people suffered radiation injuries)[92] | near Vladivostok, Russia |
10 | 1974–1976 | Columbus radiotherapy accident, 88 injuries[89][93] | Columbus, Ohio, United States |
Rail accidents and disasters[]
Deaths | Incident |
---|---|
1,700+ | Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck (Sri Lanka, 26 December 2004) |
600–1,000 | Ciurea rail disaster (Romania, 14 January 1917) |
675–800 | Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne derailment (France, 12 December 1917) |
235–800 | Bihar train derailment (Bihar, India, 6 June 1981)[94][95] |
600–700 | Vereshchyovka train disaster (Soviet Union, 24 January 1944) |
600+ | Guadalajara train disaster (Mexico, 22 January 1915)[96] |
575 | Ufa train disaster (Soviet Union, 4 June 1989) |
521–600+ | Balvano train disaster (Italy, 3 March 1944) |
200–500+ | Torre del Bierzo rail disaster (Spain, 3 January 1944) |
428 | Awash rail disaster (Awash, Afar, Ethiopia, 13 January 1985) |
383+ | Al Ayatt train disaster (Egypt, 20 February 2002) |
370 | (Stará Kremnička, Slovakia, 27 December 1944)[97] |
360 | 1981 Chengdu-Kunming rail crash (Ganluo County, China, 9 July 1981) |
358 | Firozabad rail disaster (Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, 20 August 1995) |
338 | (Rongjiawan, Hunan, China, 29 April 1997) |
320 | Nishapur train disaster (Iran, 18 February 2004) |
307 | Sukkur rail disaster (Sangi, Sindh, Pakistan, 4 January 1990) |
300 | (Changsha, China, January 1918) |
300~ | Montemorelos, (Mexico, 1915)[98] |
300 | (Angola, 1994)[99] |
300 | Gambar train crash, (Montgomery, Punjab, Pakistan, 29 September 1957)[100] |
289 | Baku Metro fire (Baku, Azerbaijan, 28 October 1995) |
285 | Gaisal train disaster (Gaisal, West Bengal, India, 2 August 1999) |
281 | Igandu train disaster (Tanzania, 24 June 2002) |
278 | Genthin rail disaster (Genthin, Germany, 22 December 1939) |
248 | El Virilla train accident, (Costa Rica, 14 March 1926)[101] |
230 | Lagny-Pomponne Railroad Disaster, (France, 23 December 1933) |
226 | Quintinshill rail crash (Scotland, 22 May 1915) |
212 | Khanna rail disaster (Khanna, Ludhiana, Punjab, India, 1998) |
208 | Saltillo, Coahuila (Mexico, 4 October 1972) |
207 | BASF tank car explosion, (Ludwigshafen, Germany, 28 July 1948) |
160-200 | Bau Ca train wreck (Dong Nai, Vietnam, 17 March, 1982) |
192 | Daegu subway fire (South Korea, 18 February 2003) |
192 | Muamba rail disaster (Mozambique, 25 May 2002) |
189 | Nishinari train fire, (Osaka, Japan, 29 January 1940)[102] |
185 | Aracaju train crash, (Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil, 20 March 1946) |
184 | Komagawa train disaster (Komagawa, Saitama, Japan, 1947) |
162 | Mikawashima train crash (Tokyo, Japan, 3 May 1962) |
161 | Tsurumi rail accident (Japan, 9 November 1963) |
156 | Bintaro train crash (Indonesia, 19 October 1987) |
155 | Kaprun disaster (Austria, 11 November 2000) |
154 | Ryongchon disaster (North Korea, 22 April 2004) |
154 | Mardaiyar river bridge derail disaster, (Tamil-Nadu, India, 1956) |
153 | Zagreb express train crash (Croatia, then Yugoslavia, 30 August 1974) |
151 | Tangiwai train disaster (New Zealand, 24 December 1953) |
150 | 1965 Durban commuter train disaster, (KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, 1965) |
150 | Pukhrayan train derailment, (Pukhrayan, Uttar Pradesh, India, 20 November 2016) |
Road[]
Deaths | Date | Incident | Location |
---|---|---|---|
1,100–2,700 | 3 November 1982 | Salang Tunnel fire[103] | Salang Pass, Hindu Kush, Afghanistan |
230 | 2 July 2010 | Sange road tanker explosion[104] | Sange, South Kivu, DRC |
219 | 25 June 2017 | Bahawalpur explosion[105] | Bahawalpur, Pakistan |
217 | 11 July 1978 | Los Alfaques disaster[103] | Tarragona, Spain |
171 | 15 February 1991 | Thung Maphrao truck explosion[106] | Thung Maphrao, Phang Nga, Thailand |
151 | 5 November 2021 | Freetown fuel tanker explosion | Freetown, Sierra Leone |
125 | 6 December 1965 | Sotouba truck collision[103] | Sotouba, Togo |
121 | 12 July 2012 | Okobie road tanker explosion[107] | Okobie, Nigeria |
115+ | 6 January 1967 | [108] | Cavite, Philippines |
113 | 31 January 2009 | Molo road tanker fire | Molo, Kenya |
110 | 12 March 1995 | Tamil Nadu truck collision[109] | Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, India |
104 | 18 August 1968 | Gero bus crash[103] | Gero, Gifu, Japan |
100–200 | 5 November 2000 | Ibadan road tanker explosion[110] | Ibadan, Lagos, Nigeria |
99 | 15 November 2008 | [111] | Boromo, Burkina Faso |
98 | 28 March 2007 | Kagarko, Kaduna, Nigeria | |
94 | 8 June 1999 | Karnataka bus crash[112] | Karnataka, India |
90 | 15 November 1976 | Mafeteng, Lesotho | |
90 | 29 June 1980 | Kashmir bus crash[103] | Kashmir, India |
90 | 24 June 2004 | [113] | Zahedan, Iran |
Smog[]
Deaths | Date | Incident |
---|---|---|
4,000–6,000 | 5–9 December 1952 | The Great Smog of London (London, 5–9 December 1952). If delayed deaths due to the after effects of smog inhalation are included the number of fatalities rises to 10,000 to 12,000 deaths.[114] |
2,200 | 1880 | Coal smog (London, 1880).[115] |
1,000 | December 1956 | 1956 London smog.[116] |
780 | December 1873 | 1873 London smog[117] |
779 | December 1892 | 1892 London smog[118] |
700–800 | December 1948 | 1948 London smog[118] |
300–405 | January–February 1963 | 1963 New York City smog |
300–400 | December 1962 | 1962 London smog[116] |
220–240 | November 1953 | 1953 New York City smog |
168 | 23–25 November 1966 | 1966 New York City smog |
160 | 12–15 December 1991 | Smog (London, 12–15 December 1991)[119] |
Space exploration[]
Deaths | Date | Incident |
---|---|---|
54-300 | 24 October 1960 | Nedelin catastrophe, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union - occurred on ground before launch |
48 | 18 March 1980 | 1980 Plesetsk launch pad disaster, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Mirny, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Soviet Union - occurred on ground before launch |
21 | 22 August 2003 | 2003 Alcântara VLS accident, Alcântara, Brazil – occurred on ground before launch |
7 | 28 January 1986 | Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, over Florida, U.S. |
7 | 1 February 2003 | Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, over Texas/Louisiana, U.S. |
at least six | 15 February 1996 | Intelsat 708, Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan, China, Launch vehicle veered off course immediately after liftoff and struck a nearby village, officially killing at least six people. |
3 | 27 January 1967 | Apollo 1, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, U.S. – occurred on ground before launch |
3 | 30 June 1971 | Soyuz 11, space, only deaths in space as of 2021 |
1 | 24 April 1967 | Soyuz 1, southeast of Orenburg, Russia |
1 | 15 November 1967 | X-15 Flight 191, near Edwards AFB, California, U.S. |
1 | 31 October 2014 | VSS Enterprise crash, suborbital, Mojave Desert, California, U.S. |
Sporting events[]
Deaths | Date | Incident |
---|---|---|
13,000 | Between 284 and 286 AD | Collapse of a wall of Circus Maximus, (Rome, sometime within the reign of Diocletian)[120] |
1,112 | 140 AD | Collapse of the upper tier of the Circus Maximus, (Rome, 140 AD)[121] |
614 | 26 February 1918 | Happy Valley Racecourse fire, (Happy Valley, Hong Kong, 26 February 1918) |
328 | 24 May 1964 | 1964 Lima football riot, (Lima, Peru, 24 May 1964)[122] |
~200 | 20 January 1980 | Collapse of wooden bleachers at Corralejas bullring/stadium, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia, 20 January 1980[123] |
97 | 15 April 1989 | Hillsborough stadium crush (Sheffield, England, 15 April 1989) |
93 | 12 March 1988 | Hailstorm & Stadium crush (Kathmandu, Nepal, 12 March 1988)[124] |
84 | 11 June 1955 | 1955 Le Mans disaster (motor racing accident) (Le Mans, France, 11 June 1955) |
79 | 1 February 2012 | Port Said Stadium disaster (Port Said, Egypt, 1 February 2012) |
71 | 23 June 1968 | Puerta 12 crush (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 23 June 1968)[125] |
66 | 2 January 1971 | Second Ibrox stadium disaster, stairway crowd crush (Glasgow, Scotland, 2 January 1971) |
66 | 20 October 1982 | Luzhniki disaster, stairway crowd crush on a stadium in Moscow, USSR (20 October 1982)[126] |
61 | 1 January 2013 | Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium Disaster (Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 1 January 2013) |
56 | 11 May 1985 | Bradford City stadium fire (Bradford, England, 11 May 1985) |
43 | 17 September 1967 | Kayseri Atatürk Stadium disaster football stadium hooliganism (Kayseri, Central Anatolia, Turkey, 17 September 1967) |
43 | 11 April 2001 | Ellis Park Stadium disaster, football match crush (Johannesburg, South Africa, 11 April 2001) |
39 | 29 May 1985 | Heysel Stadium disaster football stadium hooliganism (Brussels, Belgium, 29 May 1985) |
32 | 3 October 2014 | 2014 Patna stampede (Patna, Bihar, India, 3 October 2014) |
33 | 9 March 1946 | Burnden Park disaster (Bolton, England, 9 March 1946) |
28 | 9 September 1928 | 1928 Italian Grand Prix, Emilio Materassi and 27 spectators were killed when Materassi's car crashed into a grandstand, (Monza, Italy, 1928) |
26 | 5 April 1902 | First Ibrox stadium disaster, terracing collapse (Glasgow, Scotland, 5 April 1902) |
22-24 | 15 November 1982 | Drunken football fans provoked a stampede at game Deportivo Cali and América de Cali, Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia[127][128] |
22 | 29 November 1900 | Spectators on the roof of a glass factory observing 1900 Big Game college football game caused roof to collapse, causing deaths from falls and burns (San Francisco, 1900)[129] |
21 | 8 February 1981 | Gate 7 stampede at the old Karaiskakis Stadium at the end of a football game between Olympiacos and AEK Athens (Piraeus, Greece, 8 February 1981)[130] |
21 | 22 May 2021 | Gansu ultramarathon disaster 21 out of 172 runners died in windy and cold weather in a 100k mountain running race in China.[131] |
18 | 18 November 1981 | A wall collapses at the regional stadium in Ibague, Colombia in a football match between Deportes Tolima and Deportivo Cali[127] |
18 | 5 May 1992 | Temporary grand stand collapsed, before French Cup semi-final match SC Bastia and Olympique Marseille, (Bastia, Corsica, France, 5 May 1992).[132] |
17 | 13–14 August 1979 | 1979 Fastnet yachting race storms (Fastnet Rock, Ireland, 1979) |
16 | 16 August 1980 | 16 Football Fans die of Stampede in a Kolkata Derby at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata. Recognized as the Football Lover's Day.[133][134] |
15 | 10 September 1961 | 1961 Italian Grand Prix, Autodromo Nazionale Monza (Formula 1 race): Wolfgang Von Trips and 14 spectators were killed when Von Trips' car was thrown amidst the audience (Monza, Italy, 10 September 1961) |
13 | 12 May 1957 | 1957 Mille Miglia road race: driver Alfonso de Portago, his co-driver/navigator, Ed Nelson and nine spectators was killed when Portago and Nelson ploughed into spectators. (Guidizzolo, Mantua; Italy, 12 May 1957). Also includes 2 separate deaths earlier in the race. (Reggio Emilia and Florence)[135][136] |
13 | 18 January 1953 | 1953 Argentine Grand Prix: driver Nino Farina ploughed into the crowds on lap 31, killing 13 spectators, Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 18 January 1953 |
13 | 14 September 2008 | 2008 Congo football riots: Democratic Republic of the Congo football league second division of Socozaki and Nyuki System match riot at Matokeo stadium, Butembo, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, 14 September 2008 |
13 | 31 August 1952 | Grenzlandring, 13 killed and 42 injured including the driver himself when his car went out of control and plunged into spectators, Wegberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany; 31 August 1952 |
12 | 2 March 1969 | Yellow River Dragstrip, an out of control dragster crashed through a chain-link fence into a spectator area, killing 11 instantly. The twelfth person died later in hospital. (Covington, Georgia, 1969) |
12 | 8 August 1903 | Baker Bowl bleachers collapse, Philadelphia, 8 August 1903 |
11 | 16 September 1911 | Auto race at New York State Fairgrounds, when a car went through a rail fence into the crowd, (Syracuse, New York, 1911) |
11 | 16 September 2011 | 2011 Reno Air Races crash, 11 killed including the pilot Jimmy Leeward when his aircraft plunged into VIP booths in front of the grandstands (Reno Stead Airport, Reno, Nevada; 16 September 2011) |
Stampedes[]
Deaths | Incident |
---|---|
6,000 | Ponte das Barcas disaster in Porto. A multitude of civilians fleeing from an advancing French army tried to cross the Douro river passing over a fragile pontoon bridge, which collapsed. (Portugal, 1809) |
4,000 | Mass panic at air raid shelter, during Japanese bombing of Chongqing, most deaths caused by suffocation (Chongqing, China, 1941) |
2,400+ | 2015 Mina stampede in a Mina street en route to the stoning of the devil ritual (Mecca, 2015) |
1,426 | 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy inside a pedestrian tunnel (Mecca, 1990) |
1,389 | Khodynka Tragedy at coronation of Nicholas II (Moscow, 1896) |
953 | Baghdad bridge stampede, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2005) (note: because the stampede was triggered by reports of a bombing, this figure is also included in the higher estimate for casualties of the War in Iraq) |
800 | 1954 Kumbh Mela stampede, crowd crush at religious festival (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, 1954) |
357 | Phnom Penh stampede (Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2010) |
354 | Galleria delle Grazie (Genoa, Italy, 1942) |
362 | Stampede at the stoning of the devil ritual (Mecca, 12 January 2006) |
328 | Estadio Nacional disaster, (Lima, Peru, 24 May 1964) |
270 | Stampede at the stoning of the devil ritual (Mecca, 1994) |
258 | Mandher Devi temple stampede (Wai, Maharashtra, India, 25 January 2005) |
251 | Stampede at the stoning of the devil ritual (Mecca, 2004) |
245 | Bridge stampede, (Lyon, France, 11 October 1711) |
224 | 2008 Jodhpur stampede disaster in Chamunda Devi temple (Rajasthan, India, 30 September 2008) |
200 | Stampede in the central place of Nagpur (Maharashtra, India, 1992) |
183 | Victoria Hall theatre stairway crush (Sunderland, 1883) |
173 | Bethnal Green tube station panic (London, 1943) |
162 | Naina Devi Temple stampede disaster (Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, India, 3 August 2008) |
130 | 1994 Gowari stampede in Maharashtra State Legislature building (Nagpur, Maharastra, India, 23 November 1994) |
124 | New Year event stampede at Yahiko Shrine (Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan, 1 January 1956) |
123 | Hearts of Oak vs. Kumasi Ashanti Kotoko football match crush (Accra, Ghana, 2001) |
118 | Pilgrims trampled to death (Mecca, 1998) |
115 | Shiloh Baptist Church stampede, (Birmingham, Alabama, 19 September 1902) |
115 | 2013 Madhya Pradesh stampede, (Ratangarh, India, 13 October 2013) |
110 | Carnival tragedy of 1823 (Valletta, Malta, 1823) |
105 | Yingze Park lantern festival stampede disaster in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, (10 October 1991) |
102 | 2011 Sabarimala stampede, broken out during an annual pilgrimage (Sabarimala, Kerala, India, 14 January 2011) |
100 | The Station nightclub fire, fourth-deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history (West Warwick, Rhode Island, 20 February 2003) |
Structural collapses[]
Deaths | Incident |
---|---|
171,000 | Failure of Banqiao Dam and 60 other dams in Ru River basin (Zhumadian, southern Henan, China, 8 August 1975)[137] |
20,000+ | Amphitheater collapse, (Fidenae, Italy, in the year AD 27) |
5,000–10,000 | 1979 Machchhu dam failure, (Morbi, India, 11 August 1979) |
2,209 | Johnstown Flood, (Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States, 31 May 1889) |
1,910 | 1963 Vajont Dam Disaster, (Erto e Casso, Italy, 9 October 1963) |
1,134 | Collapse of the Rana Plaza (Savar Upazila, Dhaka District, Bangladesh, 24 April 2013) |
1,000+ | Tigra Dam failure, (Gwalior, India, 4 August 1917) |
1,000 | Panshet Dam failure, (Pune, India, 12 July 1961) |
941 | Iruka Lake Dam failure, (Inuyama, Japan, 13 May 1868) |
608 | Puentes dam collapsed flooding Lorca, Murcia, Spain, 30 April 1802 |
502 | Sampoong Department Store collapse (Seoul, South Korea, 29 June 1995) |
500–1500 | Eitai Bridge collapse, (Tokyo, Japan, 20 September 1807) |
423 | Malpasset Dam failure, (Fréjus, France, 2 December 1959) |
400–600+ | St. Francis Dam failure, (Los Angeles County, California, 12 March 1928) |
356 | Gleno Dam failure, (Bergamo, Italy, 1 December 1923) |
270+ | Failure of tailings dam on Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine, (Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 25 January 2019)[138] |
268 | Val di Stava dam collapse, (Tesero, Italy, 19 July 1985) |
250–434 | Koshi Barrage failure, (Koshi River, Nepal, 18 August 2008) |
244 | Dale Dike Reservoir dam failure, (Sheffield, England, United Kingdom, 11 March 1864) |
238 | Dam failure caused by 1972 Black Hills flood, (Rapid City, South Dakota, United States, 10 June 1972) |
226 | Angers Bridge collapse, (Angers, France, 16 April 1850) |
200+ | Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site tunnel collapse, North Korea, 31 October 2017 |
~200 | Collapse of wooden bleachers at Corralejas bullring/stadium, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia, 20 January 1980[123] |
169 | Manila Film Center collapsed, Pasay, Philippines, 17 November 1981 |
~160 | Uyo church collapse, Uyo, Nigeria, 10 December 2016 |
145 | Pemberton Mill collapse, (Lawrence, Massachusetts, 10 January 1860) |
144 | Vega de Tera dam collapsed flooding Ribadelago, Zamora, Spain, 9 January 1959 |
140 | Makahali River bridge collapsed, Baitadi, Makahali, Nepal, on 19 November 1974 |
139 | Mill River dam failure, (Williamsburg, Massachusetts, United States, 1874) |
139 | a six-story apartment collapsed at Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan on 13 September 1976 |
135 | Collapse of the Royal Plaza Hotel (Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, 13 August 1993) |
128 | Guavio hydroelectric project dam collapse near Bogota, Colombia, 28 July 1983 |
125 | Buffalo Creek flood, (Logan County, West Virginia, United States, 26 February 1972) |
125 | a wire rope style bridge collapsed over a swollen stream at Munnar, Kerala, India, 8 November 1984 |
120 | a nuns' school chapel collapsed at Biblian, Canar, Ecuador on 1 February 1963 |
120–180 | Kantale Dam failure, (Kantale, Sri Lanka, 20 April 1986) |
117 | Heiwa Lake Dam failure, (Kameoka, Japan, 1951) |
115 | Synagogue Church Building collapsed at Lagos State, Nigeria, on 12 September 2014 |
114 | Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, (Kansas City, Missouri, 1981) |
112 | Yeotmal Shia Imami Ismaili mosque situated in choti gujri, Yavatmal collapsed disaster, present day of Yavatmal, Maharashtra, India on 20 August 1963.[citation needed] |
111 | Mecca crane collapse, at Masjid al-Haram, Mecca, Saudi Arabia on 11 September 2015. |
111 | Dam failure, (Molare, Italy, 1935) |
108 | Taisho Lake Dam failure, (Ide, Kyoto, Japan, 1951) |
107–500 | Dam failure, (Vratsa, Bulgaria, 1966) |
100 | Walnut Grove Dam failure, (Wickenburg, Arizona, United States, 21 February 1890) |
100 | Saque Comprehensive College collapsed at Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, 16 June 1990 |
Structural fires[]
Deaths | Date | Incident | Location |
---|---|---|---|
2,000–3,000 | 8 December 1863 | Church of the Company Fire | Santiago, Chile |
1,995 | 2 August 1893 | Theater fire[139][140] | Kamli, Japan |
1,670 | 25 May 1845 | Theater fire | Canton, China |
900 | June 1871 | Theater fire | Shanghai, China |
800 | 30 December 1836 | Lehman Theater fire | St. Petersburg, Russia |
667 | 1977 | Cinema fire | Xinjiang, China |
658 | 13 February 1937 | Antoung Movie Theater fire | Nantong, China |
614 | 27 February 1918 | Happy Valley Racecourse fire | Hong Kong |
602 | 30 December 1903 | Iroquois Theatre fire | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
600 | 20 May 1872 | Theater fire | Tientsin, China |
538 | 23 December 1995 | Dayananda Anglo Vedic private school fire | Mandi Dabwali, Haryana, India |
530 | 17 March 2000 | Kanungu church fire | Kanungu, Uganda |
500 | 17 December 1961 | Gran Circus Norte-Americano – Niterói circus fire | Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
492 | 28 November 1942 | Cocoanut Grove fire | Boston, Massachusetts |
448 | 8 December 1881 | Ringtheater fire | Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
430 | 13 January 1883 | Circus Ferroni fire | Berdichev, Russia |
420+ | 19 August 1978 | Cinema Rex fire | Abadan, Iran |
400 | 17 December 1778 | Coliseo theater fire | Zaragoza, Spain |
396 | 1 August 2004 | Paraguay supermarket fire | Asunción, Paraguay |
360 | 14 February 2012 | Comayagua prison fire | Comayagua, Honduras |
326+ | 30 June 1900 | 1900 Hoboken Docks fire | Hoboken, New Jersey, United States |
324 | 10 December 1994 | 1994 Karamay fire | Karamay, China |
322 | 21 April 1930 | Ohio Penitentiary fire | Columbus, Ohio, United States |
322 | 22 May 1967 | L'Innovation Department Store fire | Brussels, Belgium |
312 | 1910 | Barn fire | Ököritófülpös, Hungary |
309 | 25 December 2000 | Dongdu Commercial shopping center fire | Luoyang, China |
291 | 29 December 2001 | Mesa Redonda fire | Lima, Peru |
289 | 28 October 1995 | 1995 Baku Metro fire | Baku, Azerbaijan |
278+ | 5 December 1876 | Brooklyn Theatre fire | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
257+ | 11 September 2012 | 2012 Karachi garment factory fire | Karachi, Pakistan |
250 | 15 February 1909 | Flores Theater fire | Acapulco, Mexico |
242 | 27 January 2013 | Kiss nightclub fire in Santa Maria | Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
234 | 27 November 1994 | Discothèque fire | Fuxin, China |
225 | 14 July 1960 | Mental hospital fire | Guatemala City, Guatemala |
209 | 23 April 1940 | Rhythm Club fire | Natchez, Mississippi |
208 | 6 March 1943 | Hoteiza theater fire | Kucchan, Japan |
200 | 1847 | Carslruhe theater fire | St. Petersburg, Russia |
200 | 21 March 1888 | Banquet theater fire | Porto, Portugal |
194 | 30 December 2004 | República Cromañón nightclub fire | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
188 | 1 February 1974 | Joelma Building fire | São Paulo, Brazil |
188 | 10 May 1993 | Kader Toy Factory fire | Nakhon Pathom, Thailand |
186 | 5 September 1887 | Theatre Royal, Exeter | Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom |
175 | 4 March 1908 | Collinwood school fire | Collinwood, Ohio, United States |
171 | 13 January 1908 | Rhoads Opera House fire | Boyertown, Pennsylvania, United States |
168 | 6 July 1944 | Hartford circus fire | Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
167 | 6 July 1988 | Piper Alpha oil platform explosions | North Sea |
165 | 28 May 1977 | Beverly Hills Supper Club fire | Southgate, Kentucky, United States |
163 | 13 November 1960 | Cinema fire | Amude, Syria |
162 | 25 December 1971 | Daeyeonggak Hotel fire[141] | Seoul, South Korea |
162 | 18 March 1996 | Ozone Disco Club fire | Quezon City, Philippines |
157 | 20 May 1980 | Eventide Home for the Aged | Kingston, Jamaica |
153 | 4 December 2009 | Lame Horse fire[142] | Perm, Russia |
152 | 13 November 1960 | Cinema fire | Amuda, Syria |
150 | 19 June 1919 | Teatro Yagüez fire | Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, United States |
146 | 1 November 1970 | Club Cinq-Sept fire night club fire[141] | Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France |
146 | 25 March 1911 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire | New York City, New York, United States |
144 | 19 April 1930 | 1930 Costești wooden church fire[143] | Costești, Romania |
139 | 22 September 1948 | Wing On godown fire[144][145][146] | Sai Wan, Hong Kong |
130 | 18 March 1930 | Cinema fire[147] | Kirin, China |
126 | 4 May 1897 | Bazar de la Charité fire | Paris, France |
124 | 3 June 2010 | 2010 Nimtoli Fire[148] | Nimtoli, Old Dhaka |
124 | 24 November 2012 | 2012 Dhaka fire, Tazreen Fashion factory[149] | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
123 | 15 May 1929 | Cleveland Clinic fire of 1929 | Cleveland, Ohio, United States |
120–140 | 1184 | Fire at McDermott's Castle caused by lightning strike | Lough Key, Ireland |
120+ | 13 June 2013 | Jilin Baoyuanfeng poultry plant fire | Dehui, China |
119 | 7 December 1946 | Winecoff Hotel fire | Downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
118 | 18 April 1930 | 1930 Costești wooden church fire | Costești, Romania |
118 | 13 May 1972 | Sennichi department store fire | Osaka, Japan |
113–117 | 26 May 1822 | Grue Church fire | Grue, Norway |
109 | 5 November 1961 | 1961 Elbarusovo school fire | Elbarusovo, Soviet Union |
108 | 17 May 2004 | Fire at San Pedro Sula's prison | San Pedro Sula, Honduras |
104 | 10 March 1930 | Cinema fire[150] | Chinkai Guard District |
104 | 29 November 1973 | Taiyo department store fire | Kumamoto, Japan |
104 | 10 March 1930 | Jinhae Primary School fire | Jinhae, Korea (now South Korea) |
102 | 11 July 1997 | Royal Jomtien Resort Hotel fire | Jomtien Beach, Thailand |
100 | 16 February 1955 | Nursing home fire | Yokohama, Japan |
100 | 20 February 2003 | The Station nightclub fire | West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States |
See also[]
- List of lists organized by death toll
Notes[]
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