Worst Industrial Accidents in History
The following table includes information about the worst industrial disasters in history.
| Year | Day | Incident | Location | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 04/24 | Rana Plaza, a building containing several factories, collapses | Savar, Bangladesh | more than 1,100 |
| 1984 | 12/02 | 42 tons of lethal methyl isocyanate leak from the Union Carbide pesticide plant | Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India | 2,259 (immediately) An estimated 25,000 are believed to have died since from the exposure |
| 1942 | 04/26 | A coal dust and gas explosion in a mine | Benxihu Colliery, Benxi Liaoning, China | 1,549 |
| 1986 | 04/26 | Explosion during an unauthorized test at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant | Prypiat, Ukraine | 50 due to radiation 3,940 due to radiation induced cancer and leukemia |
| 1947 | 04/16 | Fire near 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate on S.S. Grandcamp causes explosion | Port of Texas City, Texas, USA | 581 |
| 1984 | 11/19 | Explosions at a Liquid Petroleum Gas tank farm | San Juanico, Mexico | 500 |
| 1906 | 03/10 | Coal dust explosion | Courrieres, France | 1,099 |
| 1976 | 07/10 | ICMESA, a chemical manufacturing plant, releases dioxins (TCDD) | Seveso, Italy | 3,300 farm animals 80,000 animals are later slaughtered |
| 1989 | 03/24 | Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker, spills 260,000 to 750,000 barrels of crude oil into the sea | Prince William Sounds, Alaska, USA | 100,000 to 250,000 seabirds |
| 2000 | 05/13 | Explosion at a fireworks storage depot | Enschede, Netherlands | 23 |
