List of building and structure collapses explained

This list of structural failures and collapses includes bridges, dams, and radio masts/towers.

Antiquity to the Middle Ages

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226 BC City of Rhodes, Island of Rhodes (now Greece)Statue
27 Fidenae, Italia, Roman Empiredata-sort-value="20000"20,000+ dead
ca. 27–30 Jerusalem, Judea, Roman Empiredata-sort-value="18"18 dead
140 Rome, Italia, Roman EmpireAmphitheatre data-sort-value="13000"~13,000 dead
312 Rome, ItalyBridge
558 Constantinople, Byzantine Empire (now Turkey)
1091 London, EnglandBridge
1275St. Servatius BridgeMaastricht, NetherlandsBridgedata-sort-value="400"~400 dead
1284 Beauvais, FranceChurch
1303 Alexandria, Mamluk Sultanate (now Egypt)
1322 Ely Cathedral Tower collapse Ely, Cambridgeshire, EnglandChurch
1342 Judith BridgePrague, Kingdom of BohemiaBridge
1382 Stralsund, Duchy of Pomerania, Hanseatic League (now Germany)Church
1444 Venice, Republic of Venice (now Italy)Bridge
1500 Malmesbury, Wiltshire, EnglandChurch
1529 Breslau, Silesia, Hapsburg lands, Holy Roman Empire (now Poland)Church
1549 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, EnglandChurch
1573 Beauvais, FranceChurch
1577 Groningen, free city (now the Netherlands)Church

17th–19th centuries

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1625 Tallinn, Sweden (now Estonia)Church
1647 Stralsund, Duchy of Pomerania (now Germany)Church
1661 Dortmund, Hanseatic League (now Germany)Church
1666 Riga, Sweden (now Latvia)Church 8 buried in rubble
17th century Caen, FranceChurch
1674 Utrecht, NetherlandsChurch
1697 Klausenburg, Habsburg monarchy (now Romania)Church
1713 Twickenham, England, Great Britain (now UK) Church
ca. 1715 Xagħra, Gozo, MaltaTower
1721 Riga, Sweden/Russia (now Latvia)Church
1763 Klausenburg, Habsburg monarchy (now Romania)Church
1807 Eitai Bridge Tokyo, JapanBridge 500-2,000 dead
1809 Ponte das Barcas Porto, PortugalBridge 4,000 dead
1821 Saalebrücke bei Mönchen-Nienburg Nienburg, GermanyBridge 55 dead
1831 Broughton, Greater Manchester, England, UKBridge 0 dead, 20 injured
1845 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UKBridge 79 dead
1847 Chester, England, UKBridge 5 dead, 9 injured
1850 Angers, Maine-et-Loire, FranceBridge 226 dead
1854 Wheeling, West Virginia, United StatesBridge 0 Dead
1860 Lawrence, Massachusetts, USdata-sort-value="145"~145 dead, ~166 injured
1860 Wootton, Warwickshire, England, UKBridge 2 dead
1860 Ambergate, Derbyshire, England, UK Bridge
1861 Chichester Cathedral spire collapse Chichester, West Sussex, UKChurch
1863 between Meridian and Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States Bridge
1864 South Yorkshire, England, UKDam 240+ dead[1]
1868 Saint Peter's Church spire collapse Fritzlar, Hesse, Prussia, North German ConfederationChurch 21 dead, 31 injured
1873 Dixon, Illinois, United StatesBridge 46 dead, 56 injured
1876 Ashtabula, Ohio, US 92 dead, 64 injured
1879 Dundee, ScotlandBridge data-sort-value="75"~75 dead, With 60 known
1887 Boston, Massachusetts, USBridge 38 dead, 40 injured
1888 Kentucky, United StatesBridge 37 dead
1889 Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USDam 2,209 dead
1890 Walnut Grove Dam[2] Wickenburg, Arizona Territory, USDam 100–150 dead
1891 Münchenstein, Basel-Landschaft, SwitzerlandBridge 73 dead, 171 injured
1895 Ireland Building New York City, New York, USOffice building 16 dead, 12 injured
1896 Victoria, British Columbia, CanadaBridge 55 dead
1897 Maddur, IndiaBridge 150 dead

1900–1949

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1900 San Francisco, California, United StatesFactory 23 dead, 100+ injured
1902 Venice, Italy
1902 Glasgow, Scotland, UK Stadium 25 dead, 500+ injured
1904 Eden, Colorado, USBridge 111 dead
1905 Saint Petersburg, RussiaBridge
1905 Portage Canal Swing BridgeHoughton, Michigan, United StatesBridge
1905 Brockton, Massachusetts, US Factory 58 dead, 150 injured
1906 National Electric Signaling Company mast Machrihanish, ScotlandGuyed mast
1906 Framingham, Massachusetts, U.S.Office building 13 dead, 8 injured
1907 Quebec City, Quebec, CanadaBridge 75 dead, 11 injured
1911 Romanov Bridge Zelenodolsk, Russian EmpireBridge 13 dead
1912 Nauen, Germany Radio tower
1915 Spokane, Washington, USBridge 5 dead, 12 injured
1916 Quebec City, CanadaBridge 13 dead
1919 Boston, Massachusetts, US Tank 21 dead, 150 injured
1922 Washington, D.C., US Cinema building98 dead, 133 injured
1925 Norddeich, Germany Radio tower
1925 Boston, Massachusetts, US Building 44 dead, 24 injured
1927 Zeesen, GermanyGuyed mast
1928 Santa Clarita, California, USDam data-sort-value="600"~600 dead[3]
1930 Munich, Germany Radio tower
1935 Langenberg (Rheinland), Germany Radio tower
1937 New London, Texas, US School data-sort-value="300"~300 dead
1938 Tokamachi, Niigata, JapanCinema building 69 dead, 92 injured
1939 Sandö BridgeKramfors, Ångermanland, SwedenBridge 18 dead
1939 Bremen, GermanyRadio tower
1940 Tacoma, Washington, USBridge
1940 Ludwigshafen, GermanyBridge
1945 Cologne, GermanyBridge Unknown
1945 Remagen, GermanyBridge data-sort-value="18"~18–33 dead, ~63–93 injured
1949 Langenberg (Rheinland), Germany Radio tower
1949 Inotani wire bridge Toyama, Toyama, JapanBridge 29 dead
1949 Hamburg, West GermanyRadio tower

1950–1979

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1951 Duplessis bridge collapse Quebec, Canada Bridge 4 dead
1953 Bridge 151 dead
1957 WSM-TV Tower Nashville, Tennessee, US Guyed mast (under construction)4 dead
1957 Lewisham, London, UK Bridge 90 dead, 173 injured
1958 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Bridge 19 dead
1958 Carolina Beach, North Carolina, US Radio tower
1958 Ochsenkopf, Germany Guyed mast
1959 Ribadelago, SpainDam 144 dead
1959 Côte d'Azur, FranceDam 423 dead
1959Bryansk, USSRCinema46 dead, at least 123 injured
1960 Caprock, New Mexico, US Guyed mast
1962 Ejde, Faroe Islands, DenmarkRadio tower
1962 Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaBridge
1963 Murdochville, Quebec, Canada Bridge 6 dead
1963 Friuli-Venezia Giulia, ItalyDam data-sort-value="1900"~1,900–2,500 dead
1963 Los Angeles, California, US Dam 5 dead
1964 Maracaibo, VenezuelaBridge
1965 Iwo Jima, Ogasawara Subprefecture, Japan Radio tower 6 dead
1966 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Bridge 9 dead, 60+ injured
1967 Willemstad, CuraçaoBridge 15 dead
1967 Waltham, UK Guyed mast
1967 Point Pleasant, West Virginia, US Bridge 46 dead
1968 Ronan Point collapse London, UK High rise 4 dead, 17 injured
1968 Rowena, South Dakota, US Guyed mast
1969 Marnach, LuxembourgGuyed mast
1969 Emley, West Yorkshire, UK Guyed mast
1970 Orlunda radio transmitter central mast collapse Orlunda, Sweden Guyed mast
1970 Melbourne, Australia Bridge 35 dead, 18 injured
1970 Menai Strait, Wales, UK Bridge
1970 Pembroke Dock and Neyland, Wales, UK Bridge 4 dead, 5 injured
1970 Seoul, South Korea Residential building 34 dead, 40 injured
1971 Boston, Massachusetts, US Condominium building under construction 4 dead, 30 injured
1971 Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany Bridge under construction 13 dead, 13 injured
1971 Certeju de Sus, Hunedoara County, RomaniaDam 89 dead, 76 injured
1972 West Virginia, US Dam 125 dead, 1,121 injured
1972 Königs Wusterhausen, Germany Lattice tower
1973Skyline Towers collapseBailey's Crossroads, Virginia, USBuilding under construction14 dead, 35 injured
1973 New York, NY, US Hotel and theaters 4 dead, at least 12 injured
1973 Zeulenroda Artificial Lake bridge Zeulenroda, Germany (GDR) Bridge (under construction) 4 dead
1974 Makahali River bridge Baitadi, NepalBridge 140 dead
1974 Miami, US4-story office building7 dead[4]
1975 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Bridge 12 dead
1975 Banqiao and Shimantan Dams Zhumadian, Henan, ChinaDam data-sort-value="856000"~85,600 to 240,000 dead
1976 Idaho, US Earthen dam 11 dead
1976 Burg bei Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, West Germany Guyed mast
1976 Vienna, AustriaBridge 1 dead
1976 Pic de Nore, France Guyed mast
1977 Mooringsport, Louisiana, US Guyed mast
1977 Georgia, US Dam 39 dead
1977Granville rail disasterGranville, NSW, AustraliaBridge83 dead, 213 injured
1977Pushkino, Moscow Oblast, USSR Bridge23 dead, 125 injured
1978 Hartford, Connecticut, US Arena
1978 Zehlendorf bei Oranienburg, Germany Guyed mast
1978 Willow Island, West Virginia, US Cooling tower under construction 51 dead
1978 Joplin, Missouri, US Hotel slated for demolition 2 dead, 1 injured
1979 Kansas City, Missouri, US Stadium
1979 Bernklau, Czechoslovakia (now part of Czech Republic) Guyed mast
1979 Sunne, Sweden Pinnacle of guyed mast

1980–1999

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1980 Stenungsund, Sweden Bridge 8 dead
1980 Sincelejo, Sucre, ColombiaStadium 200+ dead
1980 Hayakawa wire bridge Saito, Kyūshū, Japan Bridge (suspension) 7 dead
1980 West Berlin, West Germany Building 1 dead
1980 Tampa Bay, Florida, US Bridge 35 dead
1981 Cocoa Beach, Florida, US Building 11 dead, 23 injured
1981 Kansas City, Missouri, US Walkway 114 dead, 216 injured
1981 Mpumalanga, South AfricaChimney 4 dead
1982 Aviamotornaya escalator collapse Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet UnionEscalator data-sort-value="8"At least 8 dead, at least 30 injured
1982 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, US Dam 3 dead
1982 Valencia, SpainDam 30+ dead or injured
1982 Senior Road Tower collapse Missouri City, Texas, US Guyed mast 5 dead
1982 Cardiff, Wales, UK Concert hall
1983 Greenwich, Connecticut, US Bridge 3 dead, 3 injured
1983 Souris, Manitoba, Canada Guyed mast
1983 Wavre, BelgiumGuyed mast
1983Kurgan, USSRDormitory15 dead
1985 Italy Dam 268 dead
1985 Apartment building collapse Castellaneta, Italy Apartment building 21 dead, 9 injured[5]
1986 Little India near Serangoon Road, SingaporeHotel 33 dead, 17 injured
1987 L'Ambiance Plaza collapse Bridgeport, Connecticut, US Residential tower 28 dead
1987 Fort Hunter, New York, US Bridge 10 dead
1988 Dzhrashen School Elementary school 400 dead[6]
1988 Sollefteå, Sweden Pinnacle of guyed mast
1988 Mainbrücke Stockstadt (Aschaffenburg Main River Freeway Bridge) Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, West Germany Bridge under construction 1 dead
1988 Station Square collapse (Save-On-Foods collapse)Burnaby, British Columbia, CanadaRooftop parking structure 21 injured
1988 Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal bridgeButterworth, Penang, MalaysiaBridge
1988 Green Bank, West Virginia, USParabolic dish (diameter: 90.440NaN0)
1989 Tennessee Hatchie River Bridge Tennessee, US Bridge 8 dead
1989 Italy Tower 4 dead, 15 injured
1989 Oakland, California, US Bridge 42 dead
1991 Astram Line steel bridge Hiroshima, Japan Bridge 15 dead
1991 London, England, UK Pier
1991 Gąbin, Poland Guyed mast (6460NaN0)
1992 Bastia, Haute-Corse, France Stadium 18 dead, 2,300+ injured
1993 Cape Race LORAN-C transmitter mast collapse Cape Race, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Mast
1993 Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand Hotel 137 dead, 227 injured
1993 Highland Towers collapse (Block 1) Selangor, Malaysia Residential tower data-sort-value="48"At least 48 dead, unknown injured
1994 Casino supermarket collapse Nice, FranceRoof of the commercial building 2 dead, 94 injured
1994 Retirement home collapse Motta Visconti, ItalyRetirement home 27 dead
1994 Marja store collapse Tallinn, EstoniaCommercial building 5 dead
1994 Seoul, South KoreaBridge 32 dead, 17 injured
1995 Paparoa National Park, New Zealand Viewing platform 14 dead, 4 injured
1995 Seoul, South Korea Commercial building 502 dead, 1,445 injured
1995 Oklahoma City, US Government building 168 dead, 680 injured
1995Taganrog Iron & Steel Factory collapseTaganrog, RussiaFactory14 dead, 17 injured
1996 Baikong Railway bridge Ruyuan County, Guangdong, China Bridge 29 dead
1996 Koror-Babeldaob Bridge Koror and Babeldaob, PalauBridge 2 dead
1996 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US Bridge
1997 New Zealand Dam
1997 Tel Aviv, Israel Bridge 4 dead, 62 injured
1997 University of Virginia Lawn pavilion Charlottesville, Virginia 1 dead, 24 injured
1997 Traill County, North Dakota, US Guyed mast
1997 Raymond, Mississippi, US Tower 3 dead
1997 Halstenbek, Germany Sports hall
1998 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Residential tower 8 dead
1998 Halstenbek, Germany Sports hall
1998 Ashkelon, Israel Chimney (under construction) 9 dead
1998Nalchik sport center balcony collapseNalchik, RussiaBalcony in sport center23 dead, 47 injured
1999 Gdynia Shipyard crane crash Gdynia, PolandCrane
1999 Residential buildings 307 dead, 1,000+ injured
1999 Foggia, Italy Residential building 67 dead, 3 injured
1999Aggie Bonfire collapseCollege Station, Texas, USBonfire12 dead, 27 injured
1999 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US Crane 3 dead, 5 Injured
1999 Ricomex Factory collapse Mount Parnitha, Athens, Greece Factory 39 dead

2000–2009

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2000 Baia Mare, Romania
2000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US Pier 3 dead, dozens injured
2000 Boulevard du Souvenir overpass collapse over Highway 15 Laval, Quebec, Canada Overpass 1 dead, 2 injured
2000 1601 Park Avenue apartment building collapse Los Angeles, California Residential apartment building 1 dead, 36 injured
2000 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US Bridge
2000 Concord, North Carolina, USBridge 107 Injured
2001 Hintze Ribeiro BridgeEntre-os-Rios, Castelo de Paiva, PortugalBridge 59 dead
2001 Jerusalem, Israel Wedding hall 23 dead, 380 injured
2001New York City, New York, USSkyscraper 2,763 dead
2001 Port Isabel and South Padre Island, Texas, US Bridge 8 dead
2001 IndiaBridge 57 dead
2002 Buran hangar collapse Baikonur, Kazakhstan/Russia Hangar 8 dead
2002 Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, US Bridge 14 dead, 11 injured
2002VertiGoSandusky, Ohio, USAmusement ride[7]
2003Hengzhou TowersHengyang, ChinaMixed-use apartment [8] 20 dead
2003 Silver Lake Dam failure Marquette County, Michigan, US
2003 Kinzua Bridge State Park, Pennsylvania, US Bridge
2003 Chicago, Illinois, US Balcony 13 dead, 57 injured
2004 Mississippi, USDam [9]
2004 BrazilDam data-sort-value="3"At least 3 dead
2004 Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise, France Airport terminal 4 dead, 3 injured
2004 Moscow, Russia Water park 28 dead, 193 injured
2004 Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Bridge crane collapse Connecticut, US Bridge-deconstruction crane 1 dead
2004 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK Guyed mast
2004 Kallang, Singapore Tunnel under construction 4 dead, 3 injured
2005 PakistanDam data-sort-value="70"~70 dead
2005 Margalla Towers Islamabad, PakistanResidential building 78 dead, 100+ injured
2005 Lesterville, Missouri, US Dam 5 injured
2005 School No. 4 Zverevo, Rostov Oblast, Russia School 3 dead, 1 injured[10]
2005 Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England, UK Tunnel
2005 Nagpada, Mumbai, India Residential building 11 dead, 24 injured
2005Chusovoy swimming pool collapseChusovoy, Russia Swimming pool14 dead, 11 injured
2006 Bad Reichenhall, Germany Stadium roof 15 dead, 32 injured
2006 Katowice, Poland Market roof 65 dead, 170 injured
2006 Moscow, Russia Market roof 66 dead, unknown injured
2006 Lagos, Nigeria Three buildings – one residential, commercial and under construction, respectively data-sort-value="28"At least 28 dead, at least 86 injured
2006 Unadilla, New York, US Bridge 2 dead[11]
2006 South Boston, Massachusetts, US Ceiling tile 1 dead, 1 injured
2006 Laval, Quebec, Canada Overpass 5 dead, 6 injured
2007 Crab House – Floor collapsed into the water Wildwood Crest, New Jersey, US Building 9 injured
2007 Neurath Power Station Scaffold collapse Grevenbroich-Neurath, Germany Power station under construction 3 dead, 6 injured
2007 WNEP-TV TowerPenobscot Knob, Mountaintop, Pennsylvania, US Guyed mast
2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota, US Bridge 13 dead, 145 injured
2007 Collapse of bridge over the Jiantuo River during construction Hunan, China Bridge 50+ dead, ~90+ injured
2007 Bridge 52–59+ dead, 140–189+ injured
2007 Salvador, Brazil Stadium 7 dead, 40 injured
2007 Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. Furniture store 9 firefighters killed, 18 injured
2008 Hornslet, Denmark Wind turbine
2008 Manhattan, New York City, US Crane 7 dead, 24 injured
2008 Belyayevka School Belyayevka, Orenburg Oblast, Russia School 5 dead, 4 injured[12]
2008 Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada Stage 40+ injured
2009 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Building 2 dead
2009 Shanghai, China Residential building 1 dead
2009 Malahide, IrelandBridge
2009 Terengganu, Malaysia Stadium
2009 Korba, Chhattisgarh, India data-sort-value="45"At least 45 dead, 7+ injured
2009 Big Valley Jamboree stage collapse Camrose, Alberta, Canada Stage 1 dead, ~75 injured
2009 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Supermarket 7 dead, unknown injured
2009 Kota Chambal Bridge collapse Kota, India Bridge 48 dead, unknown injured

2010–2019

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2010 Collapse of 45J Ma Tau Wai Road Building 4 dead
2010 Bab Berdieyinne Mosque minaret collapse Meknes, Fès-Meknès, MoroccoReligious building
2010 Myllysilta (Mill Bridge) Turku, Southwest Finland, FinlandBridge
2010 New Delhi, India Building
2010 Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome roof collapseMinneapolis, Minnesota, US Stadium roof
2010 Lagos, Nigeria Mall 5 injured
2010Stadium SouthlandInvercargill, South Island, New ZealandStadium roof
2011 Lift bridge Waddinxveen Bridge
2011 WEAU-TV, WAXX-FM Tower Fairchild, Wisconsin, US Guyed mast
2011 De Grolsch Veste stadium roof collapse Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands Stadium roof 2 dead, 14 injured
2011 Ottawa Bluesfest stage collapse Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Stage 3 injured
2011 Indianapolis, Indiana, US Stage 7 dead, 58 injured
2011 Pukkelpop stage collapse Hasselt, Flemish Community, Belgium Stage
2011 QAL scaffold collapse Gladstone, Queensland, Australia Scaffold
2011PGC office building collapse[13] Christchurch, South Island New ZealandCommercial building18 dead
2011 Canterbury Television Building collapse Christchurch, South Island New ZealandCommercial building 115 dead (collapsed during earthquake)
2011 Kutai Kartanegara Regency, Indonesia Bridge 20 dead, 39 injured
2011O'key hypermarket collapseSaint Petersburg, RussiaShopping mall1 dead, 17 injured
2012 Office buildings 17 dead
2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Stage 1 dead, 3 injured
2012 Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada Shopping mall 2 dead, 22 injured
2012 Miami Dade College parking garage Miami, Florida, US Parking garage 4 dead, 7 injured[14]
2012 Longwave transmitter Europe 1, Mast 2 Felsberg-Berus, Saarland, Germany Guyed radio mast
2012 Ceiling tile 9 dead, 2 injured
2013 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Residential building 36 dead, 17/18 injured
2013 Thane, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Building under construction[15] [16] 74 dead, 60–62 injured
2013 Savar, Dhaka, BangladeshCommercial building[17] 1,134 dead, 2,500+ injured
2013 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Building 6 dead, 13 injured[18]
2013 Penang Island, Malaysia Bridge 1 dead, 3 injured
2013 Row houses collapse 400 block of Daly Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US Row houses 8 injured[19]
2013 Skagit County, Washington, U.S. Bridge 3 injured[20]
2013 Building under construction Building data-sort-value="6"At least 6 dead, at least 20 injured[21]
2013 Mumbai, India Building data-sort-value="61"At least 61 dead, at least 32 injured[22]
2013 Medellín, Colombia Residential building 12 dead[23]
2013 Riga, Latvia Commercial building 54 dead[24]
2013 London, UK Theatre 76 injured[25]
2014 Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea Gymnasium 10 dead, 124 injured[26]
2014Death of Keane Wallis-BennettEdinburgh, ScotlandFreestanding wall1
2014 Croce del Papa collapse Cevo, Italy Guyed mast (inclined) 1 dead
2014 P'yŏngch'ŏn apartment block collapse Pyongyang, North Korea Building 100+ dead (unconfirmed)[27]
2014 Vilémov Bridge collapse Vilémov, Czechia Bridge 4 dead (cs)
2014 Lagos, Nigeria Building data-sort-value="44"115 dead[28]
2015 Building 23 dead[29]
2015 I-10 bridge collapse Desert Center, California, US Bridge 1 injured[30]
2015 Mecca, Makkah Province, Saudi ArabiaCrane 118 dead, 394 injured
2015 Dharahara (earthquake, 25 May)19th-century tower 200 dead
2015 Mariana dam disasterMariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil Tailings dam 19 dead, ~16 injured
2016 Weiguan Jinlong (earthquake, 6 Feb)Residential building 114 dead
2016Perkolo Bridge (sv)Nord-Fron near Sjoe, Sel, NorwayBridge, with trusses and glued laminated timber0 dead, 1 injured[31]
2016 Lagos, Nigeria Building under construction
2016 Kolkata, West Bengal, India Flyover bridge [32]
2016 Roof collapse 3 injured[33]
2016 Cooling tower under construction 74 dead, 2 injured[34]
2016Uyo Church collapseUyo, NigeriaChurch60 dead[35]
2017 Lebedyan, Russia Tank resulted in a flooding of Lebedyan with 28 million liters juice
2017 Tehran, Iran Shopping mall 21 dead, 70 injured, 1 missing
2017 Troja Pedestrian Bridge collapse Prague, Czechia Bridge 4 injured
2017 Eindhoven Airport parking garage collapse[36] Eindhoven, Netherlands Building under construction
2017 I-85 Overpass collapseAtlanta, Georgia, USA Overpass No fatalities or injuries reported
2017Highway overpass collapse during maintenance works[37] Camerano, ItalyHighway overpass2 dead, 3 injured[38]
2018 Merriweather Post Pavilion collapse Columbia, Maryland, US Pavilion [39]
2018Indonesia Stock Exchange floor collapseJakarta, IndonesiaSuspended walkway72 injured[40]
2018Chirajara bridge collapseChirajara, ColombiaPartially constructed motorway bridgedata-sort-value="9"9 dead, 5 injured[41]
2018Cirebon dance hall collapseCirebon, West Java, IndonesiaBuilding7 dead[42]
2018Yun Tsui residential building collapseHualien City, TaiwanResidential building14 dead[43]
2018Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapseMiami, Florida, United StatesWalkwaydata-sort-value="6"6 dead, 9 injured[44]
2018Edifício Wilton Paes de Almeida collapseSão Paulo, BrazilBuildingdata-sort-value="7"At least 7 dead[45]
2018Kundal Shahi bridge collapseKundal Shahi, Azad Kashmir, PakistanWalkwaydata-sort-value="12"At least 12 dead, 11 injured, unknown missing[46]
2018Zhejiang bridge collapseZhejiang, ChinaBridge8 dead, 3 injured[47]
2018Ponte Morandi collapseGenoa, ItalyHighway bridge43 dead, 16 injured
2018San Giuseppe dei Falegnami collapseRome, ItalyChurch0 dead or injured
20182018 Magnitogorsk building collapseMagnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, RussiaApartment building39 dead, 17 injured
20182018 Marseille building collapseMarseille, FranceApartment building8 dead, 2 injured
20192019 Lagos school collapseLagos, NigeriaResidential building20 dead, over 60 injured
2019ZadraZator, PolandRoller coaster
2019Notre-Dame de Paris fireParis, FranceCathedral roof and spire collapse 3 injured
2019Sihanoukville building collapse[48] Sihanoukville, CambodiaPartially constructed building collapse28 dead, 26 injured
2019Montana State University gym roofs collapseBozeman, Montana, United States2 gymnasiums0
2019Building collapse in MumbaiMumbai, IndiaResidential building2
2019Dharwad building collapseDharwad, Indiacommercial complex19 dead, 82 injured
2019AFAS Stadion roof collapse[49] Alkmaar, NetherlandsStadium roof0
2019Hard Rock Hotel collapseNew Orleans, United StatesPartially constructed hotel collapse3 dead, 18 injured
2019Mirepoix-sur-Tarn bridge collapseMirepoix-sur-Tarn, Occitanie, FranceBridge2 dead
2019 Brumadinho, Brazil Tailings dam 270 dead

2020–present

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2020Kep building collapseKep, CambodiaTourist guesthouse under construction36 dead, 26 injured[50]
2020Palmerah West Jakarta four-story building collapseJakarta, IndonesiaBuilding11 injured[51]
2020Collapse of Xinjia Express HotelQuanzhou, Fujian, ChinaHotel29 dead, 42 injured
2020Caprigliola bridge collapseCaprigliola, Tuscany, ItalyBridge2 injured
2020Lecheng BridgeSanxi, Jingde County, Anhui, China1543-c. 1700 bridge as a tourist attraction0 dead or injured
2020Zhenhai BridgeHuangshan City, Anhui, China1536-1699 bridge as a tourist attraction0 dead or injured
2020Collapse of Juxian Restaurant[52] Linfen City, Shanxi, ChinaBuilding29 dead, 28 injured
2020Nest on WonderlandLondon, Ontario, CanadaApartment building under construction2 dead, at least 4 injured[53]
2020Arecibo Telescope[54] Arecibo, Puerto RicoTelescope0 dead or injured
2021Brindisi warehouse collapseSan Michele Salentino, Apulia, ItalyWarehouse1 dead, 4 injured[55]
2021Cairo apartment collapseGesr El-Suez, Cairo, EgyptApartment building25 dead, 25 injured[56]
20212021 Bangkok residence collapseKritsadanakhon 31 Village, Bangkok, ThailandResidence buildingdata-sort-value="4"At least 4 dead, 5 injured[57]
2021Mexico City Metro overpass collapseTláhuac, Mexico City, MexicoOverpass26 dead, 79 injured
2021Gwangju building collapseGwangju, South KoreaCollapsed onto a bus during demolition9 dead, 8 injured[58]
2021Antwerp building collapseJos Smolderenstraat, Antwerp, BelgiumPrimary school under construction5 dead, 20 injured[59]
2021Destruction of the al-Jalaa BuildingGaza CityBuilding0 casualties, building destroyed
2021Rucheng residential building collapseRucheng County, Hunan, ChinaResidential buildingdata-sort-value="5"5 dead, 7 injured[60]
2021 Champlain Towers SouthSurfside, Florida, United StatesCondominium towerdata-sort-value="98"98 dead, 11 injured[61]
2021Sangam BridgeArunachal Pradesh, IndiaBridge3 missing
2021Collapse of Siji Kaiyuan HotelSuzhou, Jiangsu Province, ChinaHotel annex17 dead, 5 injured[62]
2021Kelowna crane collapseKelowna, British Columbia, CanadaConstruction crane5 dead[63]
2021Font Nova residential development apartment collapsePeñíscola, Valencian Community, SpainResidential building2 dead[64]
2021AdventHealth Orlando parking garage crane collapseOrlando, Florida, United StatesParking garage1 injured[65]
2021Lagos high-riseIkoyi, Lagos, NigeriaApartments (under construction)42 dead[66]
2022Nemiga pedestrian bridgeMinsk, BelarusBridge0 dead or injured[67]
2022Gwangju construction site collapseGwangju, South KoreaWall (under construction)3 injured, 0-3 missing[68]
2022Fern Hollow Bridge collapsePittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United StatesBridge10 injured
2022Alfamart Gambut collapseBanjar Regency, South Kalimantan, IndonesiaBuilding5 dead, 9 injured
2022Changsha building collapseChangsha, Hunan, ChinaBuilding54 dead, 10 injured[69]
2022Abadan Metropol building collapseAbadan, IranBuilding41 dead[70]
2022Tretten Bridge collapseØyer, NorwayBridge, with trusses and glued laminated timber0 dead[71] [72] [73]
20222022 Morbi bridge collapseMorbi, Gujarat, IndiaBridge141 dead[74]
2022AquaDom collapseBerlin, GermanyAquarium2 people injured, nearly 1,500 fish killed
2022Jakarta Islamic Centre dome collapseJakarta, IndonesiaMosqueNo fatalities reported
2023Charlotte scaffolding collapseCharlotte, North Carolina, United StatesConstruction site3 dead, 2 injured
20232023 Marseille building collapseMarseille, FranceBuilding8 dead, 5 injured, 200 displaced
2023Collapse of crane on pier of Rutenberg Power StationAshkelon, IsraelCrane2 dead, 1 injured
20232023 New York City parking garage collapseNew York City, United StatesParking garage1 dead, 5 injured
2023Davenport apartment collapseDavenport, Iowa, United StatesApartment building3 dead, 1 injured[75]
2023Surry Hills Building collapseSurry Hills, Sydney, Australia Abandoned heritage building (nearby entrance to Central station damaged)No fatalities[76]
2023Bronx building collapseBronx, New York, United StatesApartmentNo fatalities reported
2024First Church of Christ spire collapseNew London, Connecticut, United StatesChurchNo fatalities reported
2024Francis Scott Key Bridge collapseBaltimore, Maryland, United StatesBridge6 dead, 2 injured
2024Apartment building collapse in GeorgeGeorge, Western Cape, South AfricaApartment building under construction34 dead[77]
2024Medusa Beach Club collapsePalma, SpainBar with restaurant4 dead https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cldd222zn4po
2024San Pedro Garza García stage collapseSan Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, MexicoStage9 dead, 204 injured
2024Jos school collapseJos, NigeriaTwo story school22 dead[78]
2024Graffiti Pier collapsePhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaAbandoned coal pierNo fatalities nor injuries[79]
2024Kröv Hotel CollapseKröv, GermanyLow-rise building2[80]

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