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. This list does not include deaths by natural disasters, war, or violent acts.
Contents
- 1 Aviation
- 2 Explosions
- 3 Industrial disasters
- 4 Maritime
- 5 Nuclear and radiation accidents
- 6 Road
- 7 Smog
- 8 Space exploration
- 9 Sporting events
- 10 Crushes (sometimes described as stampedes or panics)
- 11 Structural collapses
- 12 Structural fires
- 13 Rail accidents and disasters
- 14 See also
- 15 Notes
- 16 References
Aviation[edit]
| Deaths | Incident | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 583 | Pan Am Flight 1736 and KLM Flight 4805 |
Tenerife, Canary Islands | 27 March 1977 |
| 520 | Japan Airlines Flight 123 | Ueno, Japan | 12 August 1985 |
| 349 | Saudi Arabian Flight 763 and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 |
Charkhi Dadri, India | 12 November 1996 |
| 346 | Turkish Airlines Flight 981 | Fontaine-Chaalis, France | 3 March 1974 |
| 329 | Air India Flight 182 | Atlantic Ocean | 23 June 1985 |
| 301 | Saudia Flight 163 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | 19 August 1980 |
| 298 | Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 | near Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine | 17 July 2014 |
| 290 | Iran Air Flight 655 | Strait of Hormuz, off Shib Deraz, Iran | 3 July 1988 |
| 275 | Iranian military Il-76 Accident | near Kerman, Iran | 19 February 2003 |
| 273 | American Airlines Flight 191 | Des Plaines, United States | 25 May 1979 |
| 270 | Pan Am Flight 103 | Lockerbie, Scotland, United Kingdom | 21 December 1988 |
| 269 | Korean Air Lines Flight 007 | Sea of Japan | 1 September 1983 |
| 265 | American Airlines Flight 587 | Queens, United States | 12 November 2001 |
| 264 | China Airlines Flight 140 | Komaki, Japan | 26 April 1994 |
| 261 | Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | 11 July 1991 |
| 257 | Air New Zealand Flight 901 | Antarctica | 28 November 1979 |
| 256 | Arrow Air Flight 1285 | Gander, Newfoundland, Canada | 12 December 1985 |
Explosions[edit]
This list does not include bombings, aviation incidents, or mining disasters
| Deaths | Date | Incident | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6,000 | 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[1] | |
| 3,000 | 18 August 1769 | A lightning bolt caused the explosion of a gunpowder depot in Brescia (Italy), destroying one-sixth of the city[2][3] | |
| 1,950 | 6 December 1917 | Halifax Explosion in Nova Scotia, Canada[4] | |
| 1,500 | 8 June 1941 | Ammunition plant with facilities explode at Smederevo, outskirt of Belgrade, Serbia | |
| 1,200 | 16 October 1926 | Explosion of ammunition on the Chinese troopship Kuang Yuang, near Kiukiang, China[5] | |
| 1,200 | 7 August 1956 | Ammunition trucks explode near a railway station in Cali, Colombia | |
| 1,121 | 1 September 1943 | Japanese battleship Mutsu, at Hashirajima harbor, 1943 due to magazine explosion | |
| 1,100 | 27 January 2002 | Lagos Armoury Explosion, in Lagos, Nigeria; many deaths were from drowning during the resulting panic | |
| 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, India | |
| 738 | 26 November 1914 | British pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Bulwark destroyed due to a magazine explosion | |
| 700 | 17 August 1988 | Iraqi military plant with facilities explode at Al Hillah, Babil, Iraq | |
| 621 | 27 February 1925 | Explosion of a dynamite depot in Brazil[6] | |
| 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[7] | |
| 575 | 4 June 1989 | Ufa train disaster in Ufa, Soviet Union | |
| 568+ | 16 April 1947 | Texas City disaster | |
| 565 | 21 September 1921 | Oppau explosion at a BASF plant in Germany; possibly as many as 1,500 were killed | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 226+ | 18 July 1806 | Gunpowder explosion near Valletta, Malta | |
| 217 | 11 July 1978 | Los Alfaques disaster, in Sant Carles de la Ràpita, Spain | |
| 207 | 28 July 1948 | Tank car explosion at BASF, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany; 3,818 were also injured[8] | |
| 206 | 22 April 1992 | Gas explosions in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico | |
| 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 | Tianjin explosions in China | |
| 180 | 26 August 1990 | Tuzla, Dobrnja-Jug mine disaster, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia | |
| 177 | 1 January 1941 | Mitsubishi Bibai, Bibai, Hokkaidō, Japan | |
| 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 | 1 January 1807 | Gunpowdership disaster in Leiden, the Netherlands | |
| 151 | 9 July 1930 | Hausdorf, Germany (currently Jugów, Poland) | |
| 150 | 2 November 1773 | Gunpowder explosion in Abbeville, France | |
| 150 | 28 March 2011 | Jaʿār munitions factory explosion in Abyan Governorate, Yemen[9] | |
| 147 | 18 August 1947 | Spanish Naval torpedo and landmine factory exploded at Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain | |
| 146 | 2 August 2014 | 2014 Kunshan explosion, a dust explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China | |
| 140 | 31 January 2009 | Sachangwan Molo tanker explosion in Kenya | |
| 134 | 1 July 1918 | Chilwell Munitions factory explosion in Nottingham, England | |
| 133 | 1 January 1917 | Munitions plant in Pennsylvania, United States | |
| 130 | 20 October 1944 | Cleveland East Ohio Gas explosion in Cleveland, Ohio, United States | |
| 126 | 11 March 1597 | Dublin Gunpowder Disaster in Dublin, Ireland | |
| 121 | 12 July 2012 | Road tanker explosion in Okobie, Nigeria | |
| 118 | 12 March 1907 | Explosion on the French battleship Iéna | |
| 117 | 22 March 2007 | 2007 Maputo arms depot explosion at Mozambican Armed Forces ammunition in Laulane, Mozambique.[citation needed] | |
| 117 | 3 June 2010 | Electrical transformer explosion in Dhaka, Bangladesh | |
| 116 | 1 January 1916 | Munitions factory, Faversham, Kent, England | |
| 110 | 12 March 1995 | A tanker truck carrying petrol exploded at Chennai, India | |
| 105 | 24 November 1980 | 24 houses of liquefied petroleum gas exploded at Danaciobasi, Kırıkkale, Turkey | |
| 103 | 26 May 1954 | USS Bennington, off Quonset Point, Rhode Island, Catapult_Explosion | |
| 103 | 28 April 1995 | Gas explosions by subway construction in Daegu, South Korea | |
| 100 | 12 October 1654 | Delft Explosion in the Netherlands | |
| 100 | 12 February 1693 | Gunpowder explosion in Limerick, Ireland | |
| 100 | 21 June 1749 | Gunpowder explosion in Wrocław, Poland | |
| 100 | 1 January 1918 | Chemical plant in Pittsburgh, United States | |
| 100 | 4 October 1918 | T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion in Sayreville, New Jersey, United States.[10] | |
| 100 | 10 June 1930 | Explosion of an ammunitions dump in Chuchow, China[11] | |
| 100 | 10 April 1988 | Pakistani Army ammunition dump explodes at Islamabad, Pakistan | |
| 100 | 15 May 2008 | NNPC oil pipeline explosion, which blasted a primary school at Ijegun, Nigeria | |
| 98 | 28 March 2007 | A truck carrying 8,800 gallons of fuel exploded and caught fire at Kagarko, Kaduna, Nigeria | |
| 94 | 1 March 1939 | Japanese Imperial Army ammunitions dump exploded at Hirakata, outskirt of Osaka, Japan | |
| 94 | 27 December 1924 | Temiya railroad station and Otaru harbor facilities destroyed by an exploding standing freight train carrying dynamite at Otaru, Hokkaidō, Japan | |
| 92 | 24 October 1960 | Nedelin catastrophe, at a space center in Baikonur, Kazakhstan | |
| 90 | 31 January 1996 | Explosion of a large store of dynamite in the basement of a five-story apartment building in Shaoyang, Hunan, China | |
| 90 | 20 June 2004 | A truck carrying 3,800 gallons of gasoline with six vehicles crashed and exploded at Nosratabad, Sistan and Baluchistan, Iran | |
| 79 | 8 April 1970 | Gas explosions by subway construction in Osaka, Japan | |
| 78 | 12 October 1978 | Greek tanker Spyros exploded at Jurong shipyard, Singapore | |
| 75 | 27 November 1944 | Underground ammunition store explosion at Fauld, Staffordshire, England | |
| 74 | 31 October 1963 | Propane explosion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum during a Holiday on Ice show at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis, United States | |
| 73 | 19 January 1917 | Silvertown explosion in London, England | |
| 73 | 4 June 1988 | Arzamas train disaster, where a railroad station exploded in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia | |
| 70 | 18 August 1946 | Vergarolla explosion at Pula, Italy | |
| 70 | 6 August 1993 | Shenzhen factory explosions in Shenzhen, China. A chain reaction of explosions rippled through factory district originating from an army-owned factory.[12] | |
| 63 | 25 September 1990 | A tank truck carrying liquefied petroleum gas crashed and exploded in downtown Bangkok, Thailand | |
| 63 | 31 August 1987 | St. Helena Gold Mine explosion by methane gas in Welkom, Free State, South Africa | |
| 60 | 1 January 1936 | Army laboratory (near Tallinn, Estonia) | |
| 60 | 9 September 2000 | Truck explosion in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur, China | |
| 60 | 11 November 1994 | Tank truck explosion, while carrying fuel oil at outskirt of Onitscha, Nigeria | |
| 57 | 11 November 1977 | Freight train with dynamite exploded at Iri railroad station, Iksan, Jeollabukdo, South Korea | |
| 57 | 18 May 1980 | 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens | |
| 51 | 12 September 1940 | 297,000 pounds of gunpowder blew up killing 51 people at Hercules Powder Factory of Kenvil, New Jersey, U.S.[13] | |
| 50 | 2 July 1918 | Explosion at TNT factory at Split Rock, New York, United States | |
| 50 | 8 January 1979 | Oil tanker explosion, known as the Betelgeuse incident at Whiddy Island, West Cork, Ireland | |
| 50 | 28 July 1987 | Three cars of passenger train from Aleppo, that exploded at Al Jazira, northern Syria | |
| 49 | 15 February 1979 | Gas explosion in PKO Rotunda Bank, Warsaw Poland | |
| 49 | 23 October 1980 | Gas explosion at Colegio Marcelino Ugalde, Ortuella, Vizcaya, Spain | |
| 48 | 1 January 1980 | Vostok rocket explosion (Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Soviet Union) | |
| 48 | 25 August 2012 | Paraguana Refinery Complex explosion, Falcon State, Venezuela | |
| 47 | 19 April 1989 | USS Iowa turret explosion | |
| 47 | 6 July 2013 | Lac-Megantic, Quebec, freight train derailment, explosion and fire in Quebec, Canada. | |
| 45 | 11 June 1996 | Gas explosion in Osasco Plaza Shopping Mall in Osasco, Brazil. Another 482 were injured | |
| 43 | 27 September 1915 | Explosion of rail car that was leaking casinghead gas in Ardmore, Oklahoma; dozens injured, destroyed most of downtown area.[14] | |
| 41 | 6 April 1968 | Richmond, Indiana explosion; more than 150 were injured | |
| 41 | 7 January 1993 | Uam apartment complex collapsed by gas explosion at Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea | |
| 40 | 12 July 1646 | Gunpowder Tower Disaster, lightning struck the gunpowder tower of the castle, Bredevoort, the Netherlands | |
| 40 | 13 April 1976 | Lapua ammo factory in Finland | |
| 39 | 29 April 1993 | Hekimbasi garbage dump with twelve slum houses explosion at Umraniye, Istanbul, Turkey | |
| 36 | 16 August 1984 | Petrobras Campos Basin exploded, off eastern Rio state, Brazil | |
| 35 | 1 January 1916 | Ammunition factory near Leeds, England | |
| 35 | 19 September 1999 | A potassium chlorate explosion in a dried-longan factory, San Pa Tong, Chiang Mai, Thailand[15] | |
| 33+ | 30 April 1931 | Explosion at a naval laboratory in Brazil[16] | |
| 33 | 21 November 1996 | Humberto Vidal explosion in San Juan, Puerto Rico | |
| 32 | 29 June 2009 | 2009 Viareggio derailment, a gas train explosion in Italy | |
| 32 | 31 July 2014 | 2014 Kaohsiung gas explosions, a series of gas explosions in Kaohsiung, Taiwan | |
| 29 | 21 September 2001 | AZF chemical factory explosion in Toulouse, France | |
| 29 | 1 January 2008 | Blast in ammunition depot in Albania | |
| 28 | 1 June 1974 | Flixborough chemical plant explosion near Scunthorpe, England | |
| 28 | 11 August 1871 | Explosion in gun cotton factory in Stowmarket, Suffolk, England | |
| 27 | 19 January 2004 | LNG liquefaction plant explosion, Skikda, Algeria | |
| 26 | 7 May 2013 | 2013 Ecatepec de Morelos gas tanker explosion, Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico | |
| 25 | 5 September 2012 | 2012 Afyonkarahisar arsenal explosion, Turkey | |
| 25 | 16 July 1992 | Tarata bombing, Lima, Peru | |
| 24 | 30 July 2004 | Gas explosion in Ghislenghien, Belgium | |
| 23 | 10 January 1976 | Pathfinder Hotel, Fremont, Nebraska, United States | |
| 23 | 23 October 1989 | Phillips Disaster in Pasadena, Texas, United States | |
| 22 | 17 April 1995 | Gas explosion in tower block, (Gdańsk, Poland) | |
| 22 | 1 January 1995 | Gas explosion in pipeline, (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) | |
| 23 | 13 May 2000 | Fireworks factory (Enschede, the Netherlands), Enschede fireworks disaster | |
| 21 | 15 January 1919 | Boston Molasses Disaster in Boston, Massachusetts, United States | |
| 21 | 25 June 1985 | Fireworks explosion in Hallet, Oklahoma, United States | |
| 21 | 1 January 1926 | Arsenal dump in New Jersey, United States | |
| 21 | 22 August 2003 | Brazilian rocket explosion | |
| 19 | 29 July 1956 | McKee refinery fire in Sunray, Texas, United States | |
| 19 | 29 October 1951 | Morania Fire, Buffalo, New York, United States – Destroyed Morania, Penobscot, and Dauntless | |
| 18 | 4 January 1966 | Propane Sphere Explosion and Fire, Feyzin, France | |
| 18 | 24 May 2004 | Mihăileşti explosion in Romania | |
| 16 | 23 May 1984 | Pump House Explosion, Lune/Wyre Transfer Scheme, Abbeystead, England | |
| 15 | 23 March 2005 | Texas City Refinery explosion, Texas City, Texas, United States | |
| 15 | 16 August 1980 | Gas explosions from an underground shopping mall in Shizuoka, Japan, Shizuoka, Shizuoka#Post-war Shizuoka | |
| 15 | 17 April 2013 | West Fertilizer Company explosion, West, Texas, United States | |
| 14 | 7 February 2008 | 2008 Georgia sugar refinery explosion (Port Wentworth, Georgia, United States) | |
| 14 | 2 February 1973 | Gas explosion in downtown Eagle Grove, Iowa, United States | |
| 13 | 11 July 2011 | Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion (Mari, Cyprus) | |
| 15 | 4 October 1960 | Kingsport, Tennessee Chemical Plant Explosion, October 1960#October 4.2C 1960 .28Tuesday.29 | |
| 12 | 29 October 2009 | Jaipur oil depot fire (IOC), Jaipur, Rajasthan, India | |
| 11 | 20 April 2010 | Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, near the Mississippi River Delta | |
| 10 | 25 October 1960 | Metropolitan Store explosion, Windsor, Ontario, Canada | |
| 10 | 19 August 2000 | El Paso Pipeline explosion, two families camping 20 miles North of Carslbad, New Mexico, United States, off the Pecos River.[17] | |
| 8 | 7 December 1983 | Gas explosion in Łódź, Poland | |
| 8 | 20 November 2002 | Amunitions factory explosion in Riobamba, Ecuador[18] | |
| 8 | 9 September 2010 | 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion, a natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, United States | |
| 7 | 27 December 1983 | North Division Street explosion, Buffalo, New York, United States | |
| 7 | 7 September 1984 | Illegal fireworks that were being disposed by the Maltese patrol boat C23 exploded killing seven and injuring another | |
| 1 | 7 January 1983 | 1983 Newark explosion in Newark, New Jersey claims 1 life and injures 22-24. The explosion is notable because it was felt 100–130 miles away from the epicenter. |
Industrial disasters[edit]
See also: List of industrial disasters
| Deaths | Date | Incident |
|---|---|---|
| 3,787-19,000+ | 2–3 December 1984 | Bhopal disaster at Union Carbide (now Dow Chemicals) factory, Bhopal, India |
| 1,784+[19] | 1932-1968 | Minamata disease, Japan |
| 1,549 | April 26, 1942 | Benxihu Colliery explosion, China |
| 1,129 | 24 April 2013 | Collapse of the Rana Plaza, Savar Upazila, Dhaka District, Bangladesh[20] |
| 1,099 | 10 March 1906 | Courrières mine disaster, Courrières, France |
| 687 | 15 December 1914 | Mitsubishi Hōjō, Kyūshū, Japan |
| 682 | 9 May 1960 | Laobaidong colliery coal dust explosion Datong, China |
| 568+ | 16–17 April 1947 | Texas City Disaster, Texas City, Texas, U.S. |
| 512 | 1899 | Sumitomo Besshi bronze mine area, landslide with debris flow disaster, Niihama, Shikoku, Japan |
| 500+ | 19 November 1984 | San Juanico Disaster, Mexico City, Mexico[21] |
| 458 | 9 November 1963 | Mitsui Miike Coal Mine disaster Mitsui Miike, Ōmuta, Fukuoka, Japan[22] |
| 439 | 14 October 1913 | Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, Senghenydd, Wales |
| 437 | 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 | 1946 | Bergkamen mining disaster, West Germany |
| 388 | 12 December 1866 | Oaks Colliery, Barnsley, England |
| 376 | 21 December 1917 | Onoura, Kirino, Kyūshū, Japan |
| 375 | 1965 | Mine explosion caused by Methane gas near Dhanbad, Bihar, India[23] |
| 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, 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 |
| 298 | 1962 | Saarland, West Germany |
| 277 | 8 September 2008 | 2008 Shanxi mudslide caused by collapse of a mine landfill in Xiangfen, Linfen, Shanxi, China[24] |
| 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 | 1937 | Kogushi sulfur mine collapse, western Gunma, Japan |
| 243 | 5 August 1909 | Onoura, Kirino, Kyūshū, Japan |
| 243 | 2003 | PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China[25] |
| 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, 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, Plzeň, Czech Republic |
| 200+ | 25 February 1984 | Vila Socó oil spill fire, Cubatão, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 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 |
| 189 | June 19, 1914 | Hillcrest mine disaster, Hillcrest, Alberta, Canada |
| 183 | 3 February 1942 | Chosei, Ube, Japan |
| 181 | 17 August 2007 | Mine disaster with flooding, Huayuan, Xintai, Shandong, China |
| 180 | 1990 | Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 177 | 16 September 1986 | Kinross gold mine fire, Transvaal, South Africa[26] |
| 177 | 1941 | Mitsubishi Bibai, Bibai, Hokkaidō, Japan |
| 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 | Tacoa powerplant fire, 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 Barroteran, Coahuila, Mexico |
| 151 | 9 July 1930 | Hausdorf, Germany, currently Jugów, Poland |
| 150 | May 3, 1887 | Nanaimo mine explosion, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada |
| 148 | 20 October 2004 | Daping, Tongchuan, Henan, China |
| 147 | 21 April 1991 | Sanjiaohe, Hongdong, Shanxi, China |
| 146 | 25 March 1911 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, New York City |
| 146 | 1 August 2014 | 2014 Kunshan explosion, Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, China[27] |
| 144 | 21 October 1966 | Aberfan landslide disaster, Wales |
| 142 | 3 January 1934 | Nelson, Osek, Czech Republic |
| 134 | 27 March 1927 | Uchigo, Iwaki, Japan |
| 134 | 27 November 2005 | Dongfeng, Qitaihe, Heilongjiang, China |
| 125 | 26 February 1972 | Buffalo Creek Flood / Pittston Coal Company dam failure, West Virginia, U.S. |
| 125 | 21 February 1891 | Springhill mining disaster, Canada |
| 125 | 15 July 1977 | Amaga, Angelopolis, Antioquia, Colombia |
| 124 | 20 June 2002 | Chengzihe, Jixi, Heilongjiang, China |
| 123 | 8 February 1923 | Dawson, New Mexico, U.S. (second disaster) |
| 123 | 27 March 1980 | Alexander Kielland wreck, oil platform destroyed by high wind, Ekofisk oil field, Norway |
| 123 | 6 August 2005 | Daxing, Xingning, Guangdong, China |
| 121 | 27 April 1917 | Victor American Hastings Mine Disaster, near Ludlow, Colorado, U.S. |
| 119 | 25 December 1951 | Orient No. 2 Mine, West Frankfort, Illinois, U.S. |
| 111 | 25 March 1947 | 1947 Centralia mine disaster, Centralia, Illinois, U.S. |
| 110 | 6 September 1869 | Avondale Mine Disaster, Plymouth, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| 109 | 30 April 1927 | Everettville, West Virginia, U.S. |
| 108 | 19 March 2007 | Ulyanovskaya, Novokuznetsk, Kuzbass Region, Siberia, Russia |
| 108 | 7 July 1961 | Dukla, Dolná Súča, Slovakia |
| 108 | 5 March 1885 | Jan, Karviná, Czech Republic |
| 105 | 11 May 1995 | Vaal Reef gold mine elevator failure, Orkney, Klerksdorp, South Africa |
| 105 | 5 December 2007 | Ruizhiyuan, Linfen, Shanxi, China |
| 104 | 15 August 1947 | William pit disaster, Whitehaven, Cumberland, United Kingdom |
| 101 | 18 November 2007 | Methane explosion Zasyadko, Donetsk, Ukraine |
| 100 | 8 March 1983 | Armutçuk, Ereğli, Zonguldak, Turkey |
| 94 | 5 December 1984 | Haishan, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 93 | 16 October 1981 | Hokutan Yubari, Yubari, Hokkaidō, Japan |
| 92 | 20 May 1919 | Nová Jáma, Orlová, Czech Republic |
| 92 | 18 November 1989 | Rudnici, Aleksinac, Nisava District, Serbia |
| 92 | 22 July 2001 | Gangzi, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China |
| 92 | 5 June 1919 | Baltimore Colliery explosion, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| 91 | 27 November 1996 | Dongcun, Datong, Shanxi, China |
| 91 | 10 January 1940 | Bartley, West Virginia, U.S. |
| 91 | 2 May 1972 | Hard rock mine fire Sunshine mine, Kellogg, Idaho, U.S. |
| 89 | 11 March 1997 | Xingsheng, Pingdingshan, Henan, China |
| 86 | 13 May 2003 | Luling coal mine, Hefei, Anhui, China |
| 84 | 15 February 1982 | Ocean Ranger oil platform sinking, Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Canada |
| 84 | 9 December 1911 | Cross Mountain Mine disaster, Briceville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| 83 | 18 January 1984 | Mitsui Miike coal mine, Ōmuta, Fukuoka, Japan |
| 83 | 13 July 2005 | Shenlong, Fukang, Xinjiang Uygur, China |
| 82 | 11 March 2000 | Barakova, Krasnodon, Ukraine |
| 82 | 5 November 1930 | Millfield Mine disaster, Dover Township, Athens County, Ohio, U.S. |
| 78 | 20 November 1968 | Farmington Mine disaster, Farmington, West Virginia, U.S. |
| 76 | 12 October 1978 | Spyros disaster, Singapore |
| 74 | 23 October 1958 | Springhill mining disaster, Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 74 | 27 February 1943 | Smith Mine disaster, Bearcreek, Montana, U.S. |
| 73 | 17 June 2010 | San Fernando, Amaga, Antioquia, Colombia[citation needed] |
| 72 | 16 March 1940 | Willow Grove No. 10 explosion, Neffs, Ohio, U.S.[28] |
| 72 | 7 April 1911 | Price-Pancoast Colliery fire, Throop, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| 71 | 9 March 1961 | Ueda Kamikiyo, Kawara, Kyūshū, Japan |
| 71 | 16 February 1882 | Trimdon Grange, County Durham, England[29] |
| 68 | 2 March 1960 | Kukje Rubber Manufacturing plant No.2 fire at Busan, South Korea |
| 68 | 2 December 1997 | Zyryanouskaya, Novokuznetsk, Kuzbass Siberia, Russia |
| 66 | 16 October 1889 | Mossfield, Longton, Staffordshire, U.K. |
| 65 | 24 February 2006 | KTS Composite Textile factory fire, at Chittagong, Bangladesh |
| 65 | 26 March 1896 | Brunner Mine disaster, West Coast, New Zealand |
| 65 | 19 February 2006 | Pasta de Conchos Mine disaster, Coahuila, México |
| 65 | 4 September 1981 | Pluto, Záluží, Czech Republic,[30] Hlobane, Vryheid, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa |
| 64 | 2 April 1979 | Sverdlovsk anthrax leak, Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia |
| 63 | 31 August 1987 | St. Helena gold mine explosion by methane gas, Welkom, Free State, South Africa |
| 63 | 4 April 1998 | Skochynsky, Donetsk, Ukraine |
| 63 | 15 July 1940 | Sonman Mine explosion, Portage, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| 62 | 29 July 1867 | Hlubina, Ostrava, Czech Republic |
| 61 | 3 January 1981 | Trojice, Ostrava, Czech Republic |
| 60 | 22 November 2004 | Shahe iron mine caught fire, Hebei, China |
| 60 | 28 May 1997 | Beilongfeng, Fushun, Liaoning, China |
| 59 | 20 March 2005 | Xishui mine, Shanxi province, China |
| 59 | 26 March 1885 | Bettina, Orlová, Czech Republic |
| 58 | 28 June 1896 | Twin Shaft Disaster, Pittston, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| 56 | 1991 | Bright Sparkler fireworks factory explosion at Sungai Buloh, Malaysia |
| 55 | 25 April 2008 | Four-story Rosamor Furniture ameublements plant fire, Lissasfa, Casablanca, Morocco |
| 54 | 22 May 1960 | Hlubina, Ostrava, Czech Republic |
| 54 | 1860 | Františka, Záluží, Czech Republic |
| 54 | 24 December 1932 | 1932 Moweaqua Coal Mine disaster, Moweaqua, Illinois, U.S. |
| 53 | 13 May 1993 | Middelbult Colliery explosion, Secunda, Mpumalanga, South Africa |
| 52 | 19 August 2001 | Zasyadka, Donetsk, Ukraine |
| 47 | 18 September 1959 | Auchinloch, North Lanarkshire, Scotland |
| 45 | 21 March 2011 | Surran range, Quetta, Pakistan |
| 45 | 28 June 1960 | Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, Wales |
| 43 | 30 December 1976 | Staříč, Czech Republic |
| 43 | 24 February 2003 | Muchonggou, Shuicheng, Guizhou, China |
| 40 | 13 April 1976 | Lapua ammunition factory explosion, Finland |
| 39 | 1 November 1956 | Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 38 | 30 December 1970 | Hurricane Creek mine disaster, Hyden, Kentucky, U.S. |
| 37 | 26–27 June 1971 | Czechowice-Dziedzice Refinery fire, Poland |
| 36 | 4 October 1950 | Michálka, Ostrava, Czech Republic |
| 36 | 19 July 2004 | Donbass, Donetsk, Ukraine |
| 36 | 26 January 1924 | Lancashire Mine, Shanktown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| 35 | 15 October 1970 | West Gate Bridge collapse (during construction), Melbourne, Australia |
| 34 | 1 December 1907 | Naomi Mine explosion, Fayette City, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| 34 | 9 June 1970 | Dukla, Šardice, Czech Republic |
| 33 | 1890 | Anna, Souš, Czech Republic |
| 31 | 16 August 1968 | Industria Mirafe Toy Factory blast, Ibi, Alicante, Spain[citation needed] |
| 31 | 22 March 1977 | ČSA, Karviná, Czech Republic |
| 30 | 7 September 1985 | Osceola Mine fire, copper mine fire in Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, U.S.[31] |
| 30 | 2 July 1937 | Holditch Colliery, Chesterton, Staffordshire, UK |
| 30 | 18 October 1990 | Barbora, Karviná, Czech Republic |
| 30 | 11 January 2008 | Abaiskaya, Abai, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan |
| 29 | 21 September 2001 | AZF factory explosion (chemical), Toulouse, France |
| 29 | 19 November 2010 | Pike River Mine disaster, Greymouth, New Zealand |
| 29 | 5 April 2010 | Upper Big Branch mine explosion, Montcoal, West Virginia, U.S. |
| 29 | 31 October 1941 | Nordegg, Alberta, Canada |
| 28 | 1 June 1974 | Flixborough disaster, England |
| 26 | 4 April 1970 | Paskov, Paskov, Czech Republic |
| 26 | 9 May 1992 | Westray Mine, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 25 | 7 May 1985 | Doubrava[disambiguation needed], Czech Republic |
| 25 | 7 February 1881 | Chatterley Whitfield, Staffordshire, England |
| 24 | 13 November 2003 | Nanshan Colliery disaster, Shanxi Province, China |
| 24 | 12 February 1949 | Doubrava[disambiguation needed], Czech Republic |
| 23 | 23 October 1989 | Phillips Disaster, Pasadena, Texas, U.S. |
| 23 | 21 November 2006 | Methane explosion in Halemba coal mine, Ruda Śląska, Poland |
| 22 | 14 September 1997 | Hindustan Petroleum Refinery fire, Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| 21 | 15 January 1919 | Boston Molasses Disaster, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| 21 | 5 November 1962 | Kings Bay, Svalbard, Norway[32] |
| 20 | 10 August 2009 | 2009 Handlová mine blast, Handlová, Slovakia |
| 19 | 10 January 1990 | Methane explosion in Halemba coal mine, Ruda Śląska Poland |
| 17 | 24 December 2008 | Gas leak, Ganglu Iron and Steel Co Ltd., Hebei, China |
| 17 | 22 February 1994 | Merriespruit tailings dam disaster, Virginia, Free State, South Africa |
| 17 | 8 June 1925 | Mine No. 9, Sturgis, Union County, Kentucky, U.S. |
| 16 | 16 October 2008 | Ningxia, China |
| 15 | 17 April 2013 | West Fertilizer Company explosion, West, Texas, U.S. |
| 15 | 23 March 2005 | BP Americas Texas City isomerization unit explosion, Texas City, Texas, U.S. |
| 11 | 1960 | Kingsport, TN Chemical Plant Explosion |
| 11 | 1975 | Robin Hood Flour Company grain storage elevator explosion, Davenport, Iowa, U.S. |
| 11 | 27 May 1983 | Benton fireworks disaster, illegal fireworks operation in Benton, Tennessee, U.S.[33] |
| 11 | 20 April 2010 | BP Deepwater Horizon explosion, Gulf of Mexico |
| 7 | 2 April 2010 | Tesoro Refinery, Anacortes, Washington, U.S. |
| 5 | 2 October 2007 | Xcel Energy Cabin Creek Hydroelectric Plant Fire, Georgetown, Colorado, U.S. |
Maritime[edit]
Main article: List of maritime disasters
This section lists peacetime shipping disasters only. For wartime shipping disasters, see List of battles and other violent events by death toll.
| Deaths | Incident |
|---|---|
| 1,565–4,400 | MV Doña Paz (Tablas Strait, Philippines, 20 December 1987). Casualty estimates vary because of overloading and unmanifested passengers |
| 2,750–3,920 | SS Kiangya (off Shanghai, December 1948). Estimates of casualties vary due to large number of stowaways on board |
| 1,863 | MV Le Joola (Senegal, 26 September 2002) |
| 1,547 | Sultana (Mississippi River, 27 April 1865) |
| 1,517 | RMS Titanic (North Atlantic, 15 April 1912) |
| 1,500 | Steamer Hai Chu (Bocca Tigris, 1945)[34] |
| 1,500 | Taiping, (East China Sea, 1949) |
| 1,159 | Toya Maru (Tsugaru Strait, 1954) |
| 1,021 | SS General Slocum (New York, 15 June 1904) |
| 1,018 | MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98 (Red Sea, 3 February 2006) |
| 1,012 | RMS Empress of Ireland, (Saint Lawrence River, 29 May 1914) |
| 1,000 | SS Kiche Maru (off Honshu, Japan, 22 September 1912) |
| 1,000 | SS Hsin-Yu (Zhoushan, 1916) |
| ~1,000 | SS Hong Moh (South China Sea, 1921) |
| 894 | MV Bukoba (Lake Victoria, Tanzania, 1996) |
| 852 | MS Estonia (Baltic Sea, 28 September 1994) |
| 844 | SS Eastland (Chicago, 24 July 1915) |
| 832 | MV Princess of Stars capsized by Typhoon Fengshen off Sibuyan Island, Philippines, 21 June 2008 |
| 746 | SS Vaitarna (lost in cyclonic storm of coast of Saurashtra, India, 8 November 1888) |
| 737 | SS Camorta (Irrawaddy Delta, 1902) |
| 702 | Slave trade ship Leusden, (Marowijne Suriname, 18 January 1738) |
| 673 | HMS Queen Charlotte (Cabrera, 1800) |
| ~640 | SS Princess Alice and SS Bywell Castle (River Thames, 1878) |
| 627 | SS Norge (Rockall, 1904) |
| 625 | 1947 Ramdas Ship Disaster, SS Ramdas (Bombay, 1947) |
| 608 | Novorossiysk (Sevastopol, 1955) |
| 600 | Shamia (Meghna River, southern Barisa, Bangladesh, May 1986) |
| 587 | Ertuğrul (off Kushimoto, Japan, 1890) |
| 580 | Indonesian passenger ship Tampomas 2 (caught fire and sank in Java Sea, January 1981) |
| 570 | HMS Minotaur (off Texel, Netherlands, 22 December 1810) |
| 558 | SS Principe de Asturias (off Brazil, 1916) |
| 550 | Cahaya Bahari (off Sulawesi, Indonesia, 2000) |
| 546 | RMS Atlantic (Nova Scotia, 1873) |
| 528 | MV Nazreen 1 (Chandpur, Bangladesh, July 2003) |
| 500 | Atlas Star (Dhaleswar River, Munshiganj, Bangladesh, 1986) |
| 497 | Ebisu Maru (off Tokushima, Japan, 1946) |
| 496 | Saint-Philibert (off Île de Noirmoutier, France, 1931) |
| 464 | Salem Express (off Safaga, Egypt, 1991) |
| 461 | MV Senopati Nusantara (off Mandalika Island, Indonesia, 2006) |
| 442 | MV Dong Fang Zhi Xing capsized by a tornadic waterspout on the (Yangtze River, China, 1 June 2015) |
| 438 | Baccha Singh (Manihari Ghat, Bihar, River Ganges, 6 August 1988) |
| 423 | SS Admiral Nakhimov (Black Sea, 31 August 1986) |
| 400 | Reina Regenta (off Gibraltar, 11 March 1895) |
| 400 | PS Lady Elgin (Chicago, 1860) |
| 400 | Cataraqui (King Island, Australia, 1865) |
| 397 | Toyo Maru 10 (near Kurushima, Japan, 1945) |
| 392 | SS Himera (off Athens, Greece, 19 January 1947) |
| 389 | Filipino ferry MV Doña Marilyn capsized during Typhoon Ruby off Maripipi Island, Philippines, 24 October 1988 |
| 361 | KM Bismas Raya 2 (off Merauke, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, October 1999) |
| 358 | Drummond Castle, (off Ouessant, France, 16 June 1896) |
| 358 | HMS Victoria (near Tripoli, Lebanon, 1893) |
| 357 | 10th of Ramadan (Lake Nasser, Egypt, 1983) |
| 353 | SIEV-X (off Indonesia, 2001) |
| 350 | Annie James (off Vatersay, Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom, 1853) |
| 340 | Shalahuddin 2 (Meghna River, Bangladesh, 2002) |
| 338 | Gurita (off Sabang, Aceh, Indonesia, January 1996) |
| 325 | Harta Limba (off Kalimantan, Indonesia, 1999) |
| 314 | Principessa Mafalda (off Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil, 25 October 1927) |
| 308 | Namyong-Ho (Korean Strait, 1970) |
| 304 | Japanese passenger boat Sekirei Maru capsized with crush by windy conditions (off northwestern Awaji Island, Japan, 9 December 1945.) |
| 304 | An unnamed immigrant vessel sinks off Lampedusa (3 October 2013) |
| 304 | Sewol-Ho capsized off South-Korea (16 April 2014) |
| 300 | Steamer "Hsinwah" sinks off Waglan Island, Hongkong, China (15 January 1929)[36] |
| 300 | Brazilian river boat Sobral Santos capsized (Amazon River, Óbidos, Brazil, 20 September 1981) |
| 300 | Filipino motor vessel Dumagnete capsized off Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippines, 11 October 1968 |
| 297 | RMS Tayleur, (Lambay, Ireland, 1854) |
| 292 | A Seohae, South Korean ferry, West Sea, overloaded with 362 people, capsized off Puan county 10 October 1993[37] |
| 289 | A boat of clandestine immigrants sank near Portopalo, Italy, 1996 |
| 280 | Chinese ferry Dashun caught fire and capsized in rough seas off Yellow Sea, Yantai, Shandong, China, 24 November 1999 |
| 280 | Nigerian passenger boat capsized at Ibaka, Akwa Ibom, Nigeria, April 1998 |
| 280 | Myanmar passenger ferry U Hla Myist sunk by colliding with Japanese vessel Bombei Maru at Yangon Bay, Myanmar, February 1973 |
| 279 | Filipino floating pagoda capsized in Bocaue river, northern Manila, Philippines, 2 July 1993 |
| 274 | USS Maine (Havana, Cuba, 15 February 1898) it is disputed whether this was accidental or an act of terrorism |
| 272 | Turkish ferry SS Üsküdar capsized and sank at Bay of İzmit, Kocaeli, Turkey, 1 March 1958 |
| 272 | Kenyan ferry MV Mtongwe sank at Mtongwe, Mombasa, Kenya, 1994 |
| 260 | Earl of Abergavenny (off Portland Bill, 1805) |
| 260 | Nuestra Señora de Atocha (Florida Keys, 1622) |
| 259 | Portuguese passenger ship Save ran aground off Mozambique, 8 July 1961 |
| 254 | Vietnamese refugee boat capsized off Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, 22 November 1978 |
| 250 | Powhattan sunk off New Jersey, 16 April 1854[38] |
| 250 | Great Lakes Storm of 1913 (Great Lakes Basin, 1913) |
| 250 | Russian liner Ogoza sank in the Black Sea, 1928[39] |
| 250 | Bangladeshi ferry MV Dinar gone down in strong whirlpool at Meghna River, Chandpul, Bangladesh, 20 August 1994 |
| 250 | Chinese steamer Lee Cheong sank in a storm off Swabue (21 December 1929)[40] |
| 249 | Chang Tyong-Ho (Busan, South Korea, 1953) |
| 241 | SS G. P. Griffith burned and sank in Lake Erie, 17 June 1850. The number of lives lost may have been as high as 289. |
| 240+ | MV Teratai Prima sinking (near Sulawesi, Indonesia, 11 January 2009) |
| 230 | Brazilian double-decker boat Novo Amapá capsized (Amazon River, Pará, Brazil, 1981) |
| 230 | Bangladeshi ferry Rushi capsized by stormy condition at Padma River, Bangladesh, April 1980 |
| 226 | Ville du Havre (North Atlantic, 1873) |
| 224 | Neva sunk off (King Island, Tasmania Australia) 13 May 1835 |
| 220 | Nigerian passenger boat capsized by stormy sea off Uyo, Akwa Ibom, Nigeria, 24 January 1996 |
| 217 | SS Heraklion (Souda, Crete, Greece, 8 December 1966) Official death toll; exact fatality count unknown |
| 215 | Myanmar double-decker ferry sank during storm at Gyaing River, 1990 |
| 211 | SS Waratah, disappeared without trace off Durban, South Africa, July 1909 |
| 210 | Illegal African immigrants boat sank off Sfax, Tunisia, 2003 |
| 209 | Naval transport ship Angamos sank during a storm in the Bay of Arauco, Chile, 7 July 1928[41][42] |
| 209 | Seven Japanese fishing boats sunk by Super typhoon Carmen (off Agrihan, 1965) |
| 206 | Egyptian ferry boat Adel capsized at Upper Nile, Maghagha, Governorate, Egypt, May 1963 |
| 205 | HMS Iolaire (off Stornoway, 1919) |
| 205 | SS Hungarian Wrecked off Cape Sable, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada 20 February 1860 |
| 200 | Explosion on the Chinese passenger steamer Pa Shi, 1931[43] |
| 200 | Victoria (London, Ontario, 1881) |
| 200 | Indonesian passenger ferry KMP Digul capsized in rough sea off Merakuke, Papua, Indonesia, July 2005 |
| 200 | Bangladeshi passenger ferry Haisal rammed by collide with cargo vessel at Dhaleswari river, Bangladesh, December 1988 |
| 200 | SS Xi'an passenger ferry fire in Hong Kong (4 February 1947[44]) |
| 193 | Herald of Free Enterprise (English Channel, 6 March 1987) |
| 192 | Two illegal immigrants boats sank off Gulf of Aden, Yemen, 2007 |
| 189 | MV Maharaj (Buriganga River, Bangladesh, 2005) |
| 189 | HMS Orpheus, (Auckland, 1863) |
| 185 | Batavia (off Australia, 1629) includes both drowned and murdered |
| 182 | Congo ferry Dieu Merci capsized at Mai-Ndombe Lake, Bandunu, Democratic Republic of Congo, 27 November 2003 |
| 180 | Somali refugee boat capsized off Gulf of Aden, Yemen, 31 March 1998 |
| 177 | Russian cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov crashed into a railroad bridge at Volga River, Ulyanovsk, southwestern Russia, 5 June 1983 |
| 171 | Chinese sightseeing boat sank at Songhua River, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, August 1985 |
| 170 | Staffordshire (Cape Sable, 1853) |
| 168 | Shiun Maru (Takamatsu, Japan, 1955) |
| 167 | Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 26 January 1958 |
| 167 | Dona Cassandra sunk by typhoon Orchid (off Mindanao, 1983) |
| 165 | Tamil refugees boat capsized off Nanchchikuddah, Sri Lanka, 20 February 1997 |
| 161 | Romanian passenger boat Mogosoaia sunk by collision with Bulgarian barge Peter Karaminchev at Danube River, Galaţi, Romania, 10 September 1989 |
| 159 | Scandinavian Star (Skagerrak, 1990) |
| 158 | Sierra Leone boat Amunafa capsized off coast Bailor, Sierra Leone, 3 August 2007 |
| 150 | Peruvian ferry La Chachita capsized at Marañón River, central Peru, 7 May 1991 |
| 150 | Overloaded motorized canoe capsized off Tasso Island, Sierra Leone, 25 March 1999 |
| 150 | A pontoon ferry sink by overturned on Shire River, Malawi, 23 May 1965 |
| 150 | Colombian excursion ship Vencedor capsized off Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, September 1961 |
| 148 | French frigate Méduse (off Senegal, 1816) |
| 147 | Chinese passenger ferry Red Star 312 capsized at Shanshui, Guangdong, China on 2 March 1983 |
| 140 | SS Koombana (off Port Hedland, Western Australia, 1912) |
| 140 | Danish passenger ship Kjoebenhavn capsized after striking mine off coast of Jutland, Denmark, June 1948 |
| 140 | Italian ferry Moby Prince collide with oil tanker, dense fog off Livorno, Tuscany, Italy, 1991 |
| 140 | Two African immigrants boat sank off Seferihisar, Turkey, 2007 |
| 140 | Filipino ferry MV Cebu City capsized and collision with freighter Kota Suria off Manila Bay, Philippines, 2 December 1994 |
| 137 | SS Morro Castle (off Asbury Park, New Jersey, 8 September 1934) |
| 136 | SS Valencia (off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, 22 January 1906) |
| 136 | Finnish steamer SS Kuru capsized in autumnal storms at Lake Näsijärvi, near city of Tampere, 7 September 1929 |
| 134 | Peruvian passenger boat Adresito capsized at Amazon River, Iquitos, Loreto Maynas, Peru, 6 March 1990 |
| 134 | RMS Quetta struck a rock in the Adophus Channel of Cape York, Queensland on 28 February 1890 |
| 131 | Chinese passenger boat Rong Jian capsized at Hejiang River, Rongshan, Sichuan, China, June 2000 |
| 131 | Tararua (off Waipapa Point, New Zealand, 1881) |
| 130 | SS Hankow fire (Hong Kong, 14 October 1906)[45][46] |
| 130 | SS Volturno (Burned and sank in the North Atlantic, 1913) |
| 130 | MV Princess Victoria (Scotland, 1953) |
| 130 | Nigerian ferry Olodiama collided with a tugboat off Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, September 1997 |
| 130 | Thai ferry boat Sathit collided with chemical tanker at Gulf of Thailand, Si Racha, Thailand, March 1992 |
| 129 | USS Thresher (N. Atlantic, 1963) |
| 128 | SS City of Rio de Janeiro (San Francisco Bay, 1901) |
| 128 | Ferry SS Berlin struck the pier near Hook of Holland (the Netherlands), 21 February 1907 |
| 128 | HMS Gladiator (Isle of Wight, 1908) |
| 128 | Greek cruise ship TSMS Lakonia sunk after fire on board off Madeira, Portugal, 28 December 1962 |
| 125 | SS Bokhara (Formosa, 1892) |
| 124 | SS Yongala (Townsville, Australia, 1911) |
| 124 | Djibouti ferry Al Baraqua 2 capsized off Tadjoura, Djibouti, 6 April 2006 |
| 122+ | Russian river cruise ship Bulgaria capsized on the Kuybyshev Reservoir of the Volga River in Tatarstan, Russia, 10 July 2011 |
| 120 | Ghanan motorboat capsized at Lake Volta, Jasikan, Ghana, 10 April 2006 |
| 118-139 (est) | Template:SS Noronic caught fire while docked in Toronto, Ontario, 17 September 1949 |
| 118 | Kursk (Barents Sea, 2000) |
| 117 | Kinka Maru (Onagawa, northeastern Miyagi, Japan, 1946) |
| 113 | Japanese wooden passenger boat Kitagawa Maru 5 capsized at Onomichi, Japan, April 1957 |
| 111 | SS Vestris (North Atlantic, 1928) |
| 105 | Iranian motor vessel Viaqtar capsized off Abu Dhabi, UAE, on 14 March 1970 |
| 104 | Yugoslav river boat Niš, capsized on the Danube River near Belgrade, Serbia, 9 September 1952 |
| 102 | SS Gothenburg. (Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, 24 February 1875) |
| 100 | Brazilian cruise boat Bateau Mouche capsized at Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1 January 1989 |
| 99 | USS Scorpion (near Azores, 1968) |
| 92 | Japanese passenger boat Koun Maru sunk by rough sea off Misumi, Amakusa, western Kyūshū, Japan, 1 October 1933 |
| 90 | SS Yarmouth Castle (Bahamas, 13 November 1965) |
| 89 | SS Admella wrecked off South Australia, Australia, 6 August 1859 |
| 85 | Illegal African immigrants boat sank Mareg, Puntland, Yemen, 2003 |
| 84 | Paisley Canal Disaster, canal pleasure boat capsized, Paisley 10 November 1810 |
| 82 | STV Royston Grange (off Montevideo, Uruguay, 1972) |
| 81 | MS Express Samina (near Paros, Greece, 2000) |
| 81 | Turkish submarine TCG Dumlupınar collided with the Swedish freighter Naboland and sunk at Dardanelles Turkey, 4 April 1953 |
| 80 | Pamir (1957) |
| 80 | Hong Kong ferry Fatshan plunged by torrential typhoon Rose, 17 August 1971 |
| 78 | Greek tanker Spyros exploded at Jurong shipyard, Singapore, 12 October 1978 |
| 78 | MV George Prince ferry sank after colliding with the Norwegian tanker SS Frosta on the Mississippi River, 20 October 1976 |
| 74 | MV Princess Ashika sunk while on a regular ferry service in Tonga due to the combined effects of the boats age and lack of maintenance leading to its unseaworthiness, 5 August 2009. |
| 70 | Ming 361 (2003) |
| 61 | Turkish fishing boat carrying illegal migrants sank after hitting rocks (2012) |
| 58 | Bahrain wooden pleasure boat al-Dana capsized off Gulf of Bahrain, 2006 |
| 57 | Danish passenger boat Turisten Killing 57 pass. after fire on board on Haderslev Dam, 8 July 1959 |
| 54 | MS Jan Heweliusz (Baltic Sea, 1993) |
| 53 | Finnish torpedo boat S2, in autumnal storms at Outoori, near Pori, 1925 |
| 51 | TEV Wahine (Wellington, NZ, 1968) |
| 51 | SS Andrea Doria (off Nantucket, Massachusetts 1956) |
| 51 | Marchioness (River Thames, London 1989). 131 people on board leisure craft for a birthday party when accidentally rammed and sunk by Thames dredger Bowbelle |
| 48 | Brazilian river boat Comandante Sales capsized at Solimoes River, on the outskirts of Manacapura, Amazonas, Brazil, 4 May 2008 |
| 46 | PCC-772 Cheonan Pohang class corvette (Baengnyeong-do island, South Korea, 26 March 2010) |
| 45 | SS Elingamite (Three Kings Islands, NZ, 1902) |
| 44 | British bulk carrier MV Derbyshire capsized by structural failure and Typhoon Orchid off Ryukyu Island, 9 September 1980 |
| 42 | Masbate, Philippines (including 11 children) crowded Don Dexter Cathlyn, inter-island ferry was hit by a squall and overturned; 76 of 119 passengers were rescued, but 10 were still missing, on 4 November 2008.[47][48] |
| 39 | Lamma IV, collision by Sea Smooth (Hong Kong, 1 October 2012) |
| 36 | FV Gaul (Barents Sea, 1974) |
| 36 | Ellan Vannin (Liverpool, United Kingdom en route from the Isle of Man), December 1909 |
| 35 | HMS Pandora (Torres Strait, 1791) |
| 32 | River Dee Ferry Boat Disaster (Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 1876) |
| 32 | Costa Concordia (cruise ship capsized off the coast of Isola del Giglio, Italy, 13 January 2012) |
| 31 | SS Carnatic (Red Sea, 1869) |
| 29 | SS Edmund Fitzgerald (Lake Superior, 1975) |
| 28 | Soviet submarine K-19 (to fire, 24 February 1972) |
| 23 | Pajtás passenger boat (Hungary, Lake Balaton, 30 May 1954, capsized by design flaws, when all passengers gathered on one side of the ship to watch a sailing competition to start)[49] |
| 22 | Shek Kong Vietnamese refugee detention centre fire (Hong Kong, 3 February 1992)[44] |
| 20 | Ethan Allen (Lake George, 2 October 2005) |
| 18 | Migrant boat sank off Lesbos, Greece (2012) |
| 17 | 1979 Fastnet race (Fastnet Rock, 1979) |
| 16 | MS Sleipner (Norway, 1999) |
| 14 | Danish passenger ship SS Agda sank after striking mine near by the coast of Horsens, Denmark, 15 January 1944 |
| 13 | Essex (South Pacific, 1819) |
| 13 | MS Norman Atlantic (Strait of Otranto, 2014) The ferry caught fire in the Adriatic Sea off Corfu, Greece and was burnt out. 13 of the 478 people on board were killed, 2 during salvage. |
| 8 | Bourbon Dolphin (Offshore of Shetland, 2007) The ship capsized and sank three days later. |
| 6 | Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race (Bass Strait, 1998) |
Nuclear and radiation accidents[edit]
Main article: Nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll
| Deaths | Incident |
|---|---|
| 200 | Mayak nuclear waste storage tank explosion, (Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union, 29 September 1957), 270,000 people were exposed to dangerous radiation levels.[50] |
| 31 to 4,000+[51][52] | Chernobyl disaster, Soviet Union, 26 April 1986. 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.[53] Far higher death toll estimates have been made, but are disputed. |
| 17 | Instituto Oncologico Nacional of Panama, August 2000 – March 2001; patients receiving treatment for cancer receive lethal doses of radiation.[54][55] |
| 13 | Radiotherapy accident in Costa Rica, 1996 (114 patients received an overdose of radiation)[56] |
| 11 | Radiotherapy accident in Zaragoza, Spain, December 1990 (27 patients were injured)[57] |
| 10 | Soviet submarine K-431 accident, 10 August 1985 (49 people suffered radiation injuries)[58] |
| 10 | Columbus radiotherapy accident, 1974–1976, 88 injuries[55][59] |
| 9 | Soviet submarine K-27 accident, 24 May 1968. (83 people were injured)[55] |
| 8 | Soviet submarine K-19 accident, 4 July 1961. (More than 30 people were over-exposed to radiation)[60] |
| 8 | Radiation accident in Morocco, March 1984[61] |
| 7 | Houston radiotherapy accident, 1980[55][59] |
| 5 | Mihama Nuclear Power Plant accident, 9 August 2004. Hot water and steam leaked from a broken pipe[62] |
| 5 | Lost radiation source, Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR, 5 October 1982. 13 injuries[55] |
| 4 | Goiânia accident, Brazil, 13 September 1987 (249 people received serious radiation contamination)[63] |
| 4 | Radiation accident in Mexico City, 1962 |
| 3 | SL-1 reactor explosion and melt-down (US Army) 1961 |
| 3 | Samut Prakan radiation accident: Three deaths and ten injuries resulted when a radiation-therapy unit was dismantled, February 2000[64] |
| 2 | Tokaimura nuclear accident, nuclear fuel reprocessing plant (Japan, 30 September 1999)[62] |
Road[edit]
Main article: List of road accidents
Smog[edit]
| Deaths | Incident |
|---|---|
| 12,000 | The Great Smog (London, 5–9 December 1952) |
| 2,200 | Coal smog (London, 1880)[65] |
| 160 | Smog (London, 12–15 December 1991)[66] |
| 60 | Meuse Valley smog (Belgium, 1930)[65] |
| 50 | The 1948 Donora smog (Donora, Pennsylvania, 27–31 October 1948)[65] |
Space exploration[edit]
For a more comprehensive list, see List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents.
| Deaths | Date | Incident |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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, suborbital, Mojave Desert, California, U.S. |
Sporting events[edit]
This list does not include aviation or other transport accidents involving sporting teams traveling to or from a sporting event.
| Deaths | Incident |
|---|---|
| 590 | Happy Valley Racecourse fire, (Happy Valley, Hong Kong, 26 February 1918) |
| 328 | 1964 Lima football riot tragedy, (Lima, Peru, 24 May 1964)[67] |
| ~200 | Collapse of wooden bleachers at Corralejas bullring/stadium, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia, 20 January 1980[68] |
| 96 | Hillsborough stadium crush (Sheffield, England, 1989) |
| 93 | Hailstorm & Stadium crush (Kathmandu, Nepal, 1988)[69] |
| 84 | 1955 Le Mans disaster (motor racing accident) (Le Mans, France, 1955) |
| 79 | Port Said Stadium disaster (Port Said, Egypt, 1 February 2012) |
| 71 | Puerta 12 crush (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 23 June 1968)[70] |
| 66 | Second Ibrox stadium disaster, stairway crowd crush (Glasgow, Scotland, 1971) |
| 66 | Luzhniki disaster, stairway crowd crush on a stadium in Moscow, USSR (20 October 1982)[71] |
| 56 | Bradford City stadium fire (Bradford, England, 1985) |
| 43 | Ellis Park Stadium disaster, football match crush (Johannesburg, South Africa, 11 April 2001) |
| 40 | Kayseri Atatürk Stadium disaster football stadium hooliganism (Kayseri, Central Anatolia, Turkey, 17 September 1967) |
| 39 | Heysel Stadium disaster football stadium hooliganism (Brussels, Belgium, 1985) |
| 32 | 2014 Patna stampede (Patna, India, 2014) |
| 33 | Burnden Park disaster (Bolton, England, 1946) |
| 28 | Italian Grand Prix, Emilio Materassi and 27 spectators was killed when Materassi's car crashed into a grandstand, (Monza, Italy, 1928) |
| 26 | First Ibrox stadium disaster, terracing collapse (Glasgow, Scotland, 1902) |
| 24 | Drunken football fan provoked a stampede at game Deportivo Cali and América de Cali, Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, 18 November 1982[72] |
| 22 | Spectators on roof of glass factory observing 1900 Big Game college football game caused roof to collapse, causing deaths from falls and burns (San Francisco, 1900)[73] |
| 21 | 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)[74] |
| 18 | Temporary grand stand collapsed, before French Cup semi-final match SC Bastia and Olympique Marseille, Bastia, Corsica, France, 5 May 1992.[75] |
| 17 | 1979 Fastnet yachting race storms (Fastnet Rock, Ireland, 1979) |
| 15 | 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, 1961) |
| 13 | 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)[76][77] |
| 13 | 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 | 2008 Congo football riots: Democratic Republic of 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 | 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 | 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 | Baker Bowl bleachers collapse, Philadelphia, 8 August 1903 |
| 11 | Auto race at New York State Fairgrounds, when a car went through a rail fence into the crowd, (Syracuse, New York, 1911) |
| 11 | 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) |
| 9 | The Racetrack Disaster of Berlin: 9 killed, 52 injured in a cycling event when a motorcycle pacemaker crashed into spectators at a newly built velodrome (Berlin Botanical Garden, Berlin, Germany; 18 July 1909)[78][79] |
| 8 | Egyptian Premier League cross ryval Koroum and Al-Ittihad football match stampede at Alexandria Stadium, northern Egypt, 11 January 1999 [80] |
| 8 | 1903 Paris-Madrid race, a chain of accidents occurred causing deaths to drivers and spectators and destruction to properties. The race which was called to a halt at Bordeaux.[81][82] |
| 8 | 2010 California 200 Off Road race, eight spectators killed when an off road truck rolled into the gallery[83][84] |
| 6 | 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, in which six sailors died and many other yachts had to retire after being caught in a large storm |
| 6 | Saloon car race at the 1977 Malaysian Grand Prix, six children killed when a car struck into a fence, following a tire blowout; Batu Tiga Circuit, Selangor, Shah Alam.[85] |
| 6 | Vailsburg Motordrome, two riders including Eddie Hasha and four spectators died and 17 injured through a chain of events that began when Hasha collided into a rail (Vailsburg, Newark; September 8, 1912).[86] |
Crushes (sometimes described as stampedes or panics)[edit]
See also: List of human stampedes and crushes
| Deaths | Incident |
|---|---|
| 6,000 | Ponte das Barcas disaster in Porto, 1809. A multitude of civilians fleeing from an advancing French army tried to cross the Douro river passing over a fragile pontoon bridge, which collapsed |
| 4,000 | Mass panic at air raid shelter, during Japanese bombing of Chongqing, most deaths caused by suffocation (Chongqing, China, 1941) |
| >2,164 | 2015 crowd crush in a Mina street en route to the stoning of the devil ritual (Mecca, 2015) |
| 1,426 | Stampede by pilgrims 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, 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, 2006) |
| 270 | Stampede at the stoning of the devil ritual (Mecca, 1994) |
| 258 | Crowd crush at religious festival (Wai, Maharashtra, India, 2005) |
| 251 | Stampede at the stoning of the devil ritual (Mecca, 2004) |
| 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, 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) |
| 110 | Carnival stampede (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) |
| 96 | Hillsborough disaster crush (Sheffield, England, 1989) |
| 84 | Guatemala and Costa Rica football match crush (Guatemala City, 16 October 1996) |
| 78 | PhilSports Arena stampede, (Manila, Philippines, 4 February 2006)[87] |
| 77 | Stampede and panics at Kyoto railroad station (Japan, 8 January 1934) |
| 73 | Italian Hall disaster (Calumet, Michigan, 1913)[88] |
| 72 | River Plate vs Boca Juniors football match, stampede at gate 12 (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 23 June 1968) |
| 70 | Glen Cinema Disaster, panic caused by smouldering cinema film, Glen Cinema, (Paisley, Scotland, 31 December 1929) |
| 67 | 1959 Busan stadium stampede disaster: Typhoon Billie forced the evacuation of thousands of people through tight corridors of a stadium (Busan, South Korea, 17 July 1959) |
| 66 | Second Ibrox disaster crush (Glasgow, Scotland, 1971) |
| 66 | Luzhniki disaster, football match crush (Moscow, USSR. 20 October 1982)[71] |
| 61 | Abidjan stampede disaster, (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, 1 January 2013) |
| 60 | Jean Monthe Institute secondary school panic disaster, (Yaoundé, Cameroon, 6 December 1988) |
| 60 | A tent fire after stampede, during local festival parade (Jamshedpur, Bihar, India on 3 March 1989) |
| 56 | Los Angeles de San Rafael square stampede disaster, during contest event (Segovia, Castile-León, Spain, 15 June 1969) |
| 53 | Niamiha metro station stampede (Minsk, Belarus, 31 May 1999) |
| 52 | Hengyang railroad station stampede disaster, during Lunar New Year holidays of final day, Hengyang, Hunan, China (14 February 1994) |
| 51 | Yemeni presidential candidate Ali Abdullah Saleh election rally stampede disaster (Zunjubar, Ibb Governorate, Yemen, 13 September 2006) |
| 50 | Mahamaham Stampede disaster (Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India on 18 February 1992)[89] |
| 45 | Qutab Minar Tower stampede disaster by electric power failure (Delhi, India, 4 December 1981) |
| 44 | Kayseri Atatürk Stadium disaster (Kayseri, Central Anatolia, Turkey, 17 September 1968) |
| 42 | Ellis Park Stadium Disaster (Johannesburg, South Africa, 11 April 2001) |
| 39 | Heysel Stadium disaster (Brussels, 29 May 1985) |
| 37 | Mihong Park Lantern Festival stampede disaster (Miyun, Beijing, China, 5 February 2004) |
| 36 | Modibo Keita Stadium stampede disaster (Bamako, Mali on 21 February 2011),[90] 2013 Kumbh Mela stampede (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India), 2014 Shanghai stampede (The Bund, Shanghai, China) |
| 33 | Kumbh Mela bathing festival stampede disaster (Nasik, Maharashtra, India, 26 August 2003) |
| 29 | Mosque stampede (Karachi, 2006)[91] |
| 27 | Granadilla Civil Governor Office stapede disaster, during waiting to apply for local identify card (Granadilla, Tenerife Island, Spain, 2 February 1963)[citation needed] |
| 26 | Djinuereber Mosque stampede disaster (Timbuktu, Mali, February 2010)[citation needed] |
| 25 | A stampede by building collapse, during Shiva ratri festival (Patna, Bihar, India, 6 March 1989) |
| 24 | Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero Stampede Disaster (Cali, Colombia, 18 November 1982) |
| 23 | al-Mureikh Stadium stampede disaster, during graduation ceremony (Omdurman, Sudan 13 July 2008) |
| 21 | Lan Kwai Fong stampede disaster (Hong Kong, 1 January 1993)[92] |
| 21 | Love Parade stampede (Duisburg, Germany, 24 July 2010) |
| 21 | 2003 E2 nightclub stampede (Chicago, IL, USA, 17 February 2003) |
| 20 | Steve Kekana concert stampede disaster (Maseru, Lesotho, 29 August 1980) |
| 20 | Mexican singar Martinez Gil and twist singer Pily Gaos concert stampede disaster (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 31 January 1965) |
| 19 | Synagogue stampede during the fast of Yom Kippur (Ostrowo, Germany, 10 October 1872) |
| 19 | Stampede disaster after Christina Nilsson's appearance at a window of Grand Hôtel (Stockholm, Sweden, 23 September 1885) |
| 13 | News Divine nightclub stampede disaster (Nueva Atzacoalco, Mexico City, 20 June 2008) |
| 13 | Throb Nightclub stampede disaster (Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 24 March 2000) |
| 12 | Crush on Brooklyn Bridge, four days after opening (New York City, 30 May 1883)[93] |
| 11 | Crowd crush at The Who concert at the Riverfront Coliseum (Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, 3 December 1979) |
| 11 | Eleven killed and 247 injured in a pedestrian crush after a fireworks festival (Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 21 July 2001)[94] |
| 11 | Alexandria Stadium football match stampede disaster (Northern Egypt, January 1999) |
| 10 | All Africa Arts Hall concert stampede disaster (Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, 10 February 2008) |
| 9 | Pearl Jam performance at Roskilde Festival (Denmark, 30 June 2000) |
Structural collapses[edit]
| Deaths | Incident |
|---|---|
| 1,129 | Collapse of the Rana Plaza (Savar Upazila, Dhaka District, Bangladesh, 24 April 2013) |
| 502 | Sampoong Department Store collapse (Seoul, South Korea, 29 June 1995) |
| ~200 | Collapse of wooden bleachers at Corralejas bullring/stadium, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia, 20 January 1980[68] |
| 140 | Makahali River bridge collapsed, Baitadi, Makahali, Nepal, on 19 November 1974 |
| 139 | a six-story apartment collapsed at Karachi, Pakistan on 13 September 1976 |
| 135 | Collapse of the Royal Plaza Hotel (Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, 13 August 1993) |
| 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 |
| 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] |
| 100 | Saque Comprehensive College collapsed at Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, 16 June 1990 |
| 94 | Eleven-story apartment building collapsed at Konya, central Turkey, on 2 February 2004 |
| 94 | Pétionville school collapse, (Pétionville, Haiti, 7 November 2008) |
| 84 | Shigotani dormitory site of under construction Kurobe hydro power-plant station hit avalanche by heavy snow at Kurobe, Toyama, Japan, on 27 December 1938 |
| 82 | Church tower Geldrop, Netherlands, during storm on 27 December 1627 |
| 75 | Quebec Bridge, (Canada, 1907) |
| 74 | Cinema theatre roof collapse (Tokamachi, Japan, 1 January 1938) |
| 73 | Six dormitories of Abe coal mine company collapse with heavy rain at Sasebo, northwestern Kyūshū, Japan, on 16 April 1955 |
| 71 | Dhaka University assembly hall collapsed, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 16 October 1985 |
| 70 | 116-year-old Hintze-Ribeiro Bridge collapse, with a bus and three cars plunged into Douro River at Castelo de Paiva, Aveiro, Portugal on 4 March 2001 |
| 70 | A three-story house collapsed at Lal Bazzar, Srinagar, Jammu and Kasjhhimir, India on 4 May 1992 |
| 69 | Gameleira Exhibition Pavilion collapse (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 4 February 1971) |
| 67 | Six-story apartment building collapsed at Foggia, Apulia, Italy, on 13 November 1999 |
| 65 | Katowice Trade Hall roof collapse (Chorzów, Poland, 28 January 2006) |
| 64 | Twelve-story upmarket building collapsed at Heliopolis, outskirt of Cairo, Egypt, 27 October 1996 |
| 61 | Apartment building under construction collapsed at Moulivakkam, Chennai in India on 28 June 2014 |
| 60 | Under construction Hau River bridge collapsed at Cần Thơ, Vĩnh Long, Vietnam, on 26 September 2007 |
| 60 | Run Pathani bridge collapsed by flood swept in Mardan, Pashtunkhwa, Pakistan on August 2006 |
| 60 | Under-construction Tuojiang bridge collapsed in Fenghuang, Hunan, China on 13 August 2007 |
| 58 | Via Canosa in Barletta building collapse a five-story apartment building collapsed, Barletta, Apulia, Italy on 15 September 1959[95] |
| 56 | Market roof collapse (Moscow, Russia, 21 February 2006) |
| 54 | 2013 Riga Maxima superstore collapse (Riga, Latvia, 21 November 2013) |
| 51 | Moqattam Hill rockslide disaster in Manshiyet Nasser erea, Cairo, Egypt, 6 September 2008 |
| 50 | Ordzhonokidze Machine Tool factory roof collapsed by heavy snow at Moscow, Russia, 17 January 1982 |
| 49 | Cais do Sodré railroad station collapsed at Lisbon, Portugal, May 1963 |
| 48 | Hulu Kelang Highland Towers collapsed at Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 11 December 1993 |
| 48 | Paulo de Frontin Elevated Expressway collapse (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20 November 1971) |
| 47 | Miles City, Montana bridge collapse (United States, 1938) |
| 46 | Silver Bridge Collapse (United States, 1967) |
| 45 | Under-construction Kota Chambal River Bridge collapse in Kota, Rajasthan, India on December 2009.[citation needed] |
| 42 | Cavalese cable-car disaster, (Italy, 1976) |
| 42 | Interstate 880 (Oakland, California, Collapsed due to earthquake, 17 October 1989.) |
| 35 | West Gate Bridge collapse, (Australia, 1970) |
| 35 | Illegally built seven-story building collapse at Alexandria, Egypt, 24 December 2007 |
| 34 | Six-story apartment building collapsed at Castellaneta, Puglia, Taranto, Italy, 7 February 1985 |
| 33 | Hotel New World disaster, six-story building collapsed at Serangoon Road, Singapore, March 1986 |
| 32 | Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal bridge collapsed at Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia, 31 July 1988 |
| 32 | Seongsu Bridge collapsed in Han River, Seoul, South Korea on October 1994 |
| 29 | Under-construction Baikong bridge collapsed, Ruyuan, Shaoguan, Guangdong, China, on 20 December 1996 |
| 28 | L'Ambiance Plaza collapsed during construction, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA, 23 April 1987 |
| 28 | Transvaal Park roof collapsed, Moscow, Russia, 14 February 2004 |
| 27 | The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing collapsed during construction in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 17 June 1958 |
| 26 | Shojuso elderly house with sixty apartment building destroyed by landslide (Nagano, Japan, 26 July 1985) |
| 24 | Unlicenced construct four-story apartment buildings collapsed at Cairo, Egypt, 3 May 1984 |
| 23 | Versailles wedding hall, Jerusalem, Israel. Large portion of the third floor of the four-story building collapsed during a wedding, 24 May 2001 |
| 20 | Cavalese cable car disaster, (Italy, 1998) cable severed by United States Marine Corps military aircraft |
| 20 | Toyohama road tunnel collapse, Furubira, Hokkaidō, Japan, February 1996 |
| 20 | Chunchu suspension bridge collapse, Napalgunj, Birendranagar, Nepal, 25 December 2007. Another 15 missing |
| 19 | a seven-story apartment building collapsed at Saadatabad, Teheran, Iran on 1 July 2008 |
| 17 | Sete Quedas foot bridge collapsed at Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, 17 January 1982 |
| 14 | Cave Creek disaster A scenic Viewing Platform in Paparoa National Park, on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand collapses. 28 April 1995 |
| 14 | I-40 bridge disaster collapse, (Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, 2002) |
| 13 | I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse, (Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2007) |
| 11 | Petrobras 36 Oil Platform explosions (Brazil, 2001) |
| 3 | Turia disco lights collapse (Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan; 5 January 1988)[96] |
Structural fires[edit]
Main article: List of fires
| Deaths | Incident |
|---|---|
| 2000+ | Church of the Company Fire (Santiago, Chile, 8 December 1863) |
| 1995 | Theater fire (Kamli, Japan, 1893)[97] |
| 1670 | Theater fire (Canton, China, 25 May 1845) |
| 900 | Theater fire (Shanghai, China, June 1871) |
| 800 | Lehman Theater fire (St. Petersburg, Russia, 1836) |
| 667 | Cinema fire (Xinjiang, China, 1977) |
| 658 | Antoung Movie Theater fire (China, 13 February 1937) |
| 602 | Iroquois Theater Fire (Chicago, Illinois, 30 December 1903) |
| 600 | Theater fire (Tientsin, China, 20 May 1872) |
| 538 | Dayananda Anglo Vedic private school fire (Mandi Dabwali, India, 23 December 1995) |
| 530 | Kanungu church fire (Kanungu, Uganda, 17 March 2000) |
| 500 | Gran Circus Norte-Americano – Niterói circus fire (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 17 December 1961) |
| 492 | Cocoanut Grove fire (Boston, Massachusetts, 28 November 1942) |
| 448 | Ringtheater Fire (Vienna, Austria-Hungary, 8 December 1881) |
| 430 | Circus Ferroni fire (Berdichev, Russia, 13 January 1883) |
| 422 | Cinema Rex fire (Abadan, Iran, 20 August 1978) |
| 400 | Coliseo theater fire (Saragossa, Spain, 17 December 1778) |
| 396 | Paraguay supermarket fire (Asunción, Paraguay, 1 August 2004) |
| 360 | Comayagua prison fire (Comayagua, Honduras, 14 February 2012) |
| 324 | 1994 Karamay fire (Karamay, China, 10 December 1994) |
| 322 | Ohio Penitentiary fire (Columbus, Ohio, United States, 21 April 1930) |
| 322 | L'Innovation Department Store Fire (Brussels, Belgium, 1967) |
| 309 | Dongdu Commercial shopping center fire (Luoyang, China, 25 December 2000) |
| 278+ | Brooklyn Theater Fire (Brooklyn, United States, 5 December 1876) |
| 250 | Flores Theater fire (Acapulco, Mexico, 15 February 1909) |
| 242 | Kiss nightclub fire in Santa Maria (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 27 January 2013) |
| 225 | Mental hospital fire (Guatemala City, Guatemala, 14 July 1960) |
| 209 | Rhythm Night Club fire (Natchez, Mississippi, 23 April 1940) |
| 208 | Hoteiza theater fire (Kucchan, Japan, 6 March 1943) |
| 200 | Carslruhe theater fire (St. Petersburg, Russia, 1847) |
| 200 | Banquet theater fire (Porto, Portugal, 21 March 1888) |
| 198 | Daegu subway fire (Daegu, South Korea, 2003) |
| 194 | República Cromagnon nightclub fire (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 30 December 2004) |
| 188 | Joelma Building fire (São Paulo, Brazil, 1 February 1974) |
| 188 | Kader Toy Factory fire (Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, 10 May 1993) |
| 186 | Theatre Royal, Exeter, England, 5 September 1887 |
| 175 | Collinwood school fire (Collinwood, Ohio, United States, 4 March 1908) |
| 171 | Rhoads Opera House Fire (Boyertown, Pennsylvania, 1908) |
| 168 | Hartford circus fire, (Hartford, Connecticut, 6 July 1944) |
| 167 | Piper Alpha oil platform explosions (North Sea, 1988) |
| 165 | Beverly Hills Supper Club fire (Southgate, Kentucky, 28 May 1977) |
| 163 | Cinema fire (Amude, Syria, 13 November 1960) |
| 162 | 1971 Seoul hotel fire (South Korea)[98] |
| 162 | Ozone Disco Club fire (Quezon City, Philippines, 1996) |
| 153 | Perm Lame Horse club fire, (Perm, Russia, 4 December 2009)[99] |
| 146 | 1970 Saint-Laurent-du-Pont fire (France)[98] |
| 146 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, (New York City, 1911) |
| 144 | 1930 Costești wooden church fire[100] |
| 139 | Wing On godown fire, Sai Wan, Hong Kong, 139 killed[44][101][102] |
| 130 | Cinema fire in Kirin, China, 18 March 1930[103] |
| 124 | 2010 Nimtoli Fire, Nimtoli, Old Dhaka, 3 June 2010[104] |
| 124 | 2012 Dhaka fire, Tazreen Fashion factory (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 24 November 2012)[105] |
| 119 | Winecoff Hotel fire, (Downtown Atlanta, Georgia, 7 December 1946) |
| 118 | Sennichi department store fire, (Osaka, Japan, 13 May 1972) |
| 109 | 1961 Elbarusovo school fire (Elbarusovo, Soviet Union, 5 November 1961) |
| 108 | Fire at San Pedro Sula's prison (San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 17 May 2004) |
| 104 | Cinema fire at the Chinkai Guard District, 10 March 1930[106] |
| 104 | Taiyo department store fire, (Kumamoto, Japan, 29 November 1973) |
| 100 | The Station nightclub fire, (West Warwick, Rhode Island, 2003) |
| 99 | Seibo-no-Sono nursery home fire, (Yokohama, Japan, 17 February 1955) |
| 97 | Dupont Plaza Hotel arson, (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1986) |
| 95 | Our Lady of the Angels School Fire, (Chicago, Illinois, 1 December 1958) |
| 94 | 2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Kumbakonam, India 16 July 2004 |
| 89 | AMRI hospital fire, India, 9 December 2011 |
| 87 | Happyland Fire, (Bronx, New York City, 1990) |
| 87 | MGM Grand fire, (Paradise, Nevada, 21 November 1980) |
| 82 | Alcalá 20 nightclub fire, (Madrid, Spain, 17 December 1983) |
| 80–88 | Karlslust dance hall fire, (Berlin, Germany, 8 February 1947) |
| 78 | Laurier Palace Theatre fire, (Montreal, Canada, 9 January 1927) |
| 77 | Cleveland school fire, (Camden, South Carolina, 16 May 1923) |
| 64 | Restaurant fire in Taichung City, Taiwan, R.O.C., (15 February 1995) |
| 64 | Cinema Statuto fire, (Turin,Italy, 13 February 1983) |
| 63 | Gothenburg nightclub fire in (Gothenburg, Sweden, 1998) |
| 61 | La Salle Hotel fire, Chicago, Illinois, 5 June 1946 |
| 59 (to 61) | Santika 2009 Bangkok nightclub fire (Bangkok, Thailand, 1 January 2009)[107] |
| 59 | Uphaar Cinema fire, India on Friday, 13 June 1997 |
| 56 | Bradford City Football Club stadium fire, Bradford, West Yorkshire, 11 May 1985 |
| 50 | Summerland entertainment complex fire, Douglas, Isle of Man, 2 August 1973 |
| 49 | 2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, (Hermosillo, Mexico, 5 June 2009) |
| 48 | Stardust fire, (Artane, Dublin, Ireland, 14 February 1981) |
| 44 | Myojo 56 building fire, (Tokyo, Japan, 1 September 2001) |
| 42 | Dromcolliher Cinema Fire, (County Limerick, Ireland, 5 September 1926) |
| 41 | Ballantynes Fire, Christchurch, New Zealand, 18 November 1947 |
| 40 | The Garley Building fire, (Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, 20 November 1996) |
| 38 | Seacliff Lunatic Asylum Fire. near Dunedin, New Zealand, 8 December 1942 |
| 37 | Blue Bird Café fire, Montreal, Canada, 1 September 1970 |
| 37 | Karen refugee camp fire (Mae Hong Son, Thailand, 22 March 2013) |
| 35 | Hotel Hafnia Fire after an arson fire on the hotel, in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 September 1973 |
| 34 | Under construction Jumbo Kingdom industrial fire in Aberdeen Harbour, Hong Kong, killing up to 34 workers on 30 October 1971[108][109] |
| 33 | Hotel Polen fire, possibly after a burglary below the hotel, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 9 May 1977 |
| 33 | Hotel New Japan Fire, (Tokyo, Japan, 8 February 1982) |
| 31 | King's Cross Fire underground Tube Train station fire, London UK. 18 November 1987 |
| 30 | William Booth Memorial Home fire - Australia's deadliest building fire. Salvation Army home for destitute men (3 August 1966).[110] |
| 29 | Pioneer Hotel fire, after an arson fire on the hotel in Tucson, Arizona (20 December 1970)[111] |
| 29 | Utopia nightclub fire (Lima, Peru, 20 July 2002)[112] |
| 24 | Gulliver's nightclub fire (Port Chester, New York, United States, 30 June 1974) |
| 24 | 2009 Nakumatt supermarket fire, Nairobi, Kenya, January 2009 |
| 22 | Lobohombo, Mexico City, Mexico, 20 October 2000[113] |
| 21 | Hostel for homeless fire, Kamień Pomorski, Poland, 13 April 2009 |
| 21 | Andorinha Building fire (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 17 February 1986) |
| 21 | St. Johns School Fire, Peabody, Massachusetts, 28 October 1915 |
| 20 | Hotel fire, Borås, Sweden, 10 June 1978[114] |
| 19 | Calderón Guardia Hospital fire, San José, Costa Rica, 12 July 2005 |
| 19 | Dorothy Mae Apartment arson fire, Los Angeles, California, 4 September 1982[115] |
| 19 | Knitting factory fire in Hong Kong, spread to apartment above the factory, on 1968[116] |
| 17 | A cinefilm fire in an elementary school in Kilingi-Nõmme, Estonia, on 20 April 1937 |
| 17 | Top One Karaoke Fire (fire after an arson attack in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 25 January 1997)[117] |
Rail accidents and disasters[edit]
Main article: Lists of rail accidents
Rail accidents and incidents with 90+ deaths:
| Deaths | Incident |
|---|---|
| 800–1000 | Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne derailment (France, 1917) |
| 600–1000 | Ciurea rail disaster (Romania, 1917) |
| 500–800 | Bihar train disaster (Bihar, India, 1981)[118] |
| 600+ | Guadalajara train disaster (Mexico, 1915)[119] |
| 575 | Ufa train disaster (Soviet Union, 1989) |
| 521–600+ | Balvano train disaster (Italy, 1944) |
| 200–500+ | Torre del Bierzo rail disaster (Spain, 1944) |
| 428 | Awash rail disaster (Awash, Afar, Ethiopia, 1985) |
| 383 | Al Ayatt train disaster (Egypt, 2002) |
| 358 | Firozabad rail disaster (India, 1995) |
| 320 | Nishapur train disaster (Iran, 2004) |
| 307 | Sukkur rail disaster (Sindh, Pakistan, 1990) |
| ~300 | Montemorelos, (Mexico, 1915)[120] |
| 300 | Tolunda (Angola, 1994)[121] |
| 289 | Baku Metro fire (Azerbaijan, 1995) |
| 285 | Gaisal train disaster (India, 1999) |
| 281 | Igandu train disaster (Tanzania, 2002) |
| 278 | Genthin train disaster (Genthin, Germany, 22 December 1939) |
| 250 | Montgomery oil train disaster, (Pakistan, 1957)[122] |
| 248 | El Virilla train accident, (Costa Rica, 14 March 1926)[123] |
| 230 | Lagny-Pomponne Railroad Disaster, (France, 1933) |
| 226 | Quintinshill rail crash (Scotland, 1915) |
| 226 | Estrella del Norte (Argentina, 1978) |
| 212 | Khanna rail disaster (India, 1998) |
| 208 | Saltillo, Coahuila (Mexico, 1972) |
| 200 | Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki train disaster (Poland, 1949). Not confirmed by any official source, cf. Katastrofy kolejowe w Polsce (Polish) |
| 192 | Muamba rail disaster (Mozambique, 2002) |
| 185 | Aracaju train crash, (Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil, 20 March 1946) |
| 184 | Komagawa train disaster (Komagawa, Saitama, Japan, 1947) |
| 181 | Ajikawaguchi train disaster (Osaka, Japan, 1940) |
| 162 | Mikawashima train crash (Tokyo, Japan, 1962) |
| 161 | Tsurumi rail accident (Japan, 1963) |
| 156 | Bintaro train crash killing at least 156 people, injuring at least 300. Indonesia's worst rail accident in history. (Indonesia, 1987) |
| 155 | Kaprun disaster (Austria, 2000) |
| 154 | Ryongchon disaster (North Korea, 2004) |
| 154 | Mardaiyar river bridge derail disaster, (Tamil-Nadu, India, 1956) |
| 153 | Zagreb express train crash (Croatia, then Yugoslavia 1974) |
| 151 | Tangiwai train disaster (New Zealand, 1953) |
| 150 | 1965 Durban commuter train disaster, (KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, 1965) |
| 148 | Gyaneshwari Express train derailment, (India, 2010) |
| 142–236 | Benavidez rail disaster (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1970)[124] |
| 100–140 | Pontecagnano train disaster, Pontecagnano, Italy,1944 |
| 135 | Maizdi Khan trains disaster (Bangladesh, 1989) |
| 132 | Ghotki rail crash (Sindh, Pakistan, 2005) |
| 131 | Bouhalouane train crash, (Algeria, 1982) |
| 130 | Rafiganj train disaster (India, 2002) |
| 130 | Liziyida bridge destroyed by mud-flow, caused a train disaster. (Sichuan, China, 9 July 1981) |
| 130 | Barwald Sredni trains disaster, (Poland, 1944) |
| 128 | Mirshah trains disaster, (Punjab, Pakistan, 1997) |
| 128 | Mangueira train disaster, (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1958) |
| 126 | Rongjiawan trains disaster, (Hunan, China, 1997) |
| 120 | Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh (India, 1997) |
| 120 | Yaoundé train explosion (Cameroon, 1998) |
| 119 | Anchieta rail disaster (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1952) |
| 118 | Stéblová train disaster (Czechoslovakia, 1960) |
| 118 | Moimenta-Alcafache train crash, (Portugal, 1985) |
| 114 | Veligonda train disaster (India, 2005) |
| 114 | Ngai Ndethya (Kenya, 1993) |
| 112 | Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash (England, 1952) |
| 112 | San Rafael River train disaster (Mexico, 1989) |
| 112 | Nebukawa, derailment caused by the Great Kantō earthquake, (Japan, 1923)[125] |
| 110 | Tsuchiura triple trains crash (Tsuchiura, Japan, 1943) |
| 108 | Tangua train disaster, (Brazil, 1950) |
| 107 | Patna train derailed, (Bihar, India, 1937) |
| 107 | Vierzy tunnel trains derailed, (Aisne, France, 1972) |
| 107 | Amagasaki rail crash (Japan, 2005) |
| 107 | Ashtamudi Lake train disaster, (Kerala, India, 1988) |
| 106 | Sakuragichō train fire commuter train fire (Yokohama, Japan, 1951) |
| 106 | Kamensk-Shakhtinsky rail disaster (Russia, 1987) |
| 106 | Yangzhuang station trains disaster, (Henan, China, 1978) |
| 105 | Tama river trains disaster, (Hachioji, Japan, 1945) |
| 103 | Šakvice train disaster, (Czechoslovakia, 1953) |
| 93–102 | Malbone Street Wreck, (Brooklyn, NY, 1918) |
| 102 | Aßling train disaster, (Aßling, Germany, 16 July 1945) |
| 102 | Wuntho train disaster, (Myanmar, 1994) |
| 101 | Markdorf train disaster, (Markdorf, Germany, 22 December 1939) |
| 101 | Eschede train disaster (Germany, 1998) |
| 101 | The Great Train Wreck of 1918 (Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 1918) |
| 100 | Col des Nuages (Pass of the Clouds) derailment, (East Indochina (Vietnam), 24 June 1953) |
| 100 | Benaleka train crash, (Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2007) |
| 99 | St-Hilaire train disaster, (Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada, 29 June 1864) |
| 97 | Eden train wreck, (Colorado, United States, 1904) |
| 96 | Great Wellington train disaster, (Sky Valley Washington, United States, 1 March 1910) |
| 93 | Harmelen train disaster, (Netherlands, 1962) |
| 92 | Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster, (Ashtabula, Ohio, 1876) |
| 91 | Lewisham rail crash, (Lewisham, England, 1957) |
See also[edit]
- List of battles and other violent events by death toll
- List of Canadian disasters by death toll
- List of disasters in Australia by death toll
- List of disasters of the United Kingdom and preceding states
- List of natural disasters by death toll
- List of New Zealand disasters by death toll
- List of Poland disasters by death toll
- List of United States disasters by death toll
- List of volcanic eruptions by death toll
- List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll
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References[edit]
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