This is a list of catastrophic collapses of broadcast masts and towers.
Masts and towers can collapse as a result of natural disasters, such as storms and fires; from engineering defects; and from accidents, sabotage and bendover.__TOC__
| Location | Date | Mode of construction | data-sort-type=number | Height (meters) | Reason for collapse | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poldhu, Cornwall, England | 20 wooden poles arranged in a circle | 64 | Storm | Identical design to South Wellfleet installation. Replaced by four free-standing wooden lattice towers | ||
| South Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States | 20 wooden poles arranged in a circle | 64 | Storm | Identical design to Poldhu installation. Replaced by 4 free-standing wooden lattice towers. | ||
| Machrihanish, Scotland[1] | Guyed steel tubular mast | 128 | Storm | Used for transatlantic communication with Brant Rock, Massachusetts, U.S. Never replaced. | ||
| Nauen, Germany | Guyed steel lattice mast | 200 | Storm | Was the oldest continuously operating radio transmitting installation in the world. | ||
| Java, Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia) | ? | ? | Lightning | |||
| Norddeich, Germany | Guyed steel lattice mast | ? | Storm | Three towers collapsed | ||
| Place of Magdeburg Transmitter, Berlin, Germany | Guyed mast on roof top | ? | Guy cable rusted through | |||
| Western mast of Zeesen transmitter, Zeesen, Germany | Guyed steel lattice mast | 210 | Collapse at construction | |||
| Munich-Stadelheim, Germany | Free standing wood lattice tower | 75 | Storm | Two towers snapped off 25 metres above ground | ||
| Langenberg, Germany | Free standing wood lattice tower | 150 | Tornado | Replaced by triangle antenna | ||
| Liechtenstein-Haberfeld transmitter | Storm | |||||
| Utbremen Radio Tower, Bremen, Germany | Free standing wood lattice tower | 90 | Lightning | Replaced by steel tower | ||
| Radio Normandie Transmitter, Tower West, Fécamp, France[2] | Free standing lattice tower | 113 | Storm | |||
| Langenberg, Germany | Guyed steel tube mast | 51 | Storm | Two masts of a triangle aerial | ||
| Schwerin-Möwenburgstrasse transmitter, Schwerin, Germany | Guyed steel lattice mast | 120 | Storm | |||
| Hamburg-Billwerder, West Germany | Guyed steel lattice mast | 198 | Storm | Partial destruction of a guyed mast under construction | ||
| Augusta, Michigan | Guyed steel tube mast | Aircraft collision | Former Michigan Governor Kim Sigler, who was piloting the plane, and three passengers were killed. | |||
| Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Steel lattice mast | Windstorm | WENS television. The lower part of the tower is still visible and in use. | |||
| Nicosia, Cyprus | Sabotage | Destroyed by EOKA rebels | ||||
| WOAI, Selma, Texas[3] | [4] | Guyed steel lattice mast | 100 | Aircraft collision | Hit by a B-29. | |
| Ochsenkopf, West Germany | Guyed steel tube mast | 50 | Ice | Replaced by concrete tower | ||
| KAYS-TV Tower, Hays, Kansas | Guyed steel tube mast | 224 | Storm with 105 kt winds[5] | Top 150m of the tower toppled. Replaced within three months by a mast 251m tall. | ||
| KOBR-TV Tower, Caprock, New Mexico | Guyed lattice steel mast | 491 | Storm | Replaced by new mast of same height | ||
| LORAN-C location transmitter, Carolina Beach, North Carolina, US | Lattice Tower | 191 | Storm | Tower buckled at 2/3 of height. Tower carried radials (wires attached radially in a horizontal plane) on its top although it was not designed for them. | ||
| Villebon-sur-Yvette, France | Guyed steel lattice mast | ? | Terrorism | |||
| LORAN-C transmitter Ejde, Ejde, Faroe Islands | Guyed steel lattice mast | 190 | Material fault | Slip of guy | ||
| KGW Tower, Portland, Oregon, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 180 | Storm | Columbus Day Storm of 1962 | ||
| Angissq LORAN-C transmitter, Angissq, Greenland | Guyed steel lattice mast | 411 | Material fault | Replaced by a 214 m (704 ft)) tall mast radiator | ||
| Yap LORAN-C transmitter, Yap Island, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (modern-day Micronesia) | Guyed steel lattice mast | 305 | Collapsed during construction | |||
| Iwo Jima LORAN-C transmitter, Japan | Guyed steel lattice mast | 411 | Maintenance work | The collapsing mast also destroyed the transmitter building. Six persons were killed. | ||
| SES8 Tower, Mount Burr, South Australia, | Guyed steel lattice mast | 200 | Structural failure during guy wire tension testing | |||
| KXJB-TV mast, Galesburg, North Dakota | Guyed steel lattice mast | 628 | Helicopter collision | |||
| WLBT Tower, Raymond, Mississippi | Guyed steel lattice | 487 | F5 tornado | Replaced with 609.3 m tower which collapsed in 1997 | ||
| KBIM-TV, at Caprock, New Mexico | unknown | 411 | Unknown | [6] | ||
| XHI-TV Tower, Ciudad Obregón, Mexico | ? | 200 | Hurricane Kristen | Replaced with a temporary tower; station relocated to Yucuribampo Hill | ||
| Waltham mast, UK | Guyed tubular steel mast | 290 | Storm | High winds caused oscillations in the mast structure | ||
| WNBC-AM, WCBS-AM, at High Island, New York,[7] | Guyed lattice steel mast | 161 | Aircraft collision | |||
| KELO TV Tower, Rowena, South Dakota | Guyed steel lattice mast | 609 | Airplane collision during thunderstorm | |||
| WAEO Tower, Starks, Wisconsin | Guyed steel lattice mast | 524 | Collapse due to plane collision with guy wire | |||
| Marnach, Luxembourg | ? | Plane crash | ? | |||
| Emley Moor, Great Britain | Guyed tubular steel mast | 385 | Ice | Replaced by 330 m free-standing concrete tower | ||
| Orlunda, Sweden | Guyed steel lattice mast | 250 | Lightning | The base insulator was destroyed | ||
| KOIN-TV Towers, Portland, Oregon | Guyed steel lattice mast | 305 & 213 | Ice | Two towers collapsed | ||
| KSTP-TV and WCCO-TV, Shoreview, Minnesota | Guyed steel lattice mast | 411 | Structural failure during construction | Seven technicians were killed while lifting the first of three large antenna sections into place at the top of the tower.[8] | ||
| Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany | Lattice steel tower | 243 | Storm | |||
| Bithlo (near Orlando), Florida, US | Guyed Steel Tower | 457 | Removal of load-bearing diagonals during FM antenna installation | Multi-station tower supporting antennas of TV stations WDBO-TV, WFTV, and WMFE-TV, and radio stations WDBO-FM and WDIZ-FM – two workers on tower killed | ||
| KCRG-TV Tower Walker, Iowa | Guyed Steel Tower | 598 | Tower modifications | Tower being modified prior to installation of Iowa Public Television side-mounted antenna – five workers on tower site killed | ||
| TV Mast Brest - Roc'h Trédudon, France | Guyed steel lattice mast | 218 | Terrorism | A slightly higher tower, 225m, has been built since. | ||
| KELO TV Tower, Rowena, South Dakota, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 610 | Blizzard | |||
| Sendemast SL3, Burg bei Magdeburg, East Germany | Guyed steel lattice mast | 350 | Material fault | |||
| Pic de Nore transmitter, Pic de Nore, France | Concrete tower | 80 | Storm | Storm tore pinnacle down | ||
| CKVR Television Tower, Barrie, Ontario, Canada | Guyed steel lattice mast | 305 | Aircraft collision | |||
| KSLA-TV Tower, Mooringsport, LA | Guyed steel lattice mast | 521 | Undetermined | 1709 feet HAAT. Erected November 17, 1964. Had elevator, RCA Travelling Wave pylon antenna for Channel 12 (System M), land mobile antennas, all lost. RCA contractor for erection, stainless subcontractor. No definitive cause ever found for collapse. Speculation of "galloping guy lines" (mechanical standing waves in one of the guys), causing stress-to-failure in the guys due to rapidly alternating strain. | ||
| TV mast of Shaanxi No.9 Transmitting Station, Chang'an, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China | [9] | Guyed steel tubular mast | 26 | Ice | ||
| WJJY TV Mast, Bluffs, IL | Guyed steel lattice mast | 491 | 24 two-inch coupling bolts connecting the second and third sections of the tower snapped due to ice formation | In August 1969. This tower was one of the three tallest structures in the Northern Hemisphere and its transmitter radiated the most powerful UHF-TV signal in the world. TV channel 14 (470-476 MHz). Collapsed Easter Sunday. | ||
| WAND TV Tower, Decatur | Guyed steel lattice mast | 400 | Upper section of antenna broke loose and destroyed guy wires due to ice storm | WAND and WJJY used the same RCA UHF antennas, mfg in 1969. TV channel 17 (488-494 MHz) Collapsed Easter Sunday. | ||
| Nebraska Education Tower, Angora | Guyed steel lattice mast | 457 | Ice | |||
| Zehlendorf bei Oranienburg, East Germany | Guyed steel lattice mast | 352 | Aircraft collision | |||
| Vysílač Krašov, Bezvěrov, Czechoslovakia | Guyed mast of lattice steel | 305 | Ice | Mast was predamaged | ||
| Blåbärskullen transmitter, Sunne, Sweden | Guyed mast of lattice steel | 323 | Ice | Pinnacle with broadcasting antennas fell down, height afterwards 274 metres | ||
| LORAN-C transmitter Jan Mayen, Jan Mayen, Norway | Guyed mast of lattice steel | 190 | Ice | Guy supports were improperly installed | ||
| Delimora Transmitter, Malta | Guyed mast of lattice steel | 88 | Melting of guy supports | The guy wires were made of polymer, which melted as a result of a high electric field strength storm | ||
| Dudelange Radio Tower, Luxembourg | Lattice steel tower | 285 | Aircraft collision | Debris of the tower killed a couple in a house near the tower. | ||
| WWAY tower, Winnabow, North Carolina | Lattice steel tower | ? | Aircraft collision | Hit by a military jet. Replaced with one nearly 2,000 feet (610 m) tall. | ||
| WCIQ Tower, Mount Cheaha, Alabama | Guyed steel lattice mast | ? | Ice storm | |||
| main mast of Shaanxi No.10 Transmitting Station, Chunhua, Xianyang, Shaanxi, China | [10] | Guyed steel lattice mast | 129[11] | High winds and corrosion | ||
| Senior Road Tower, Missouri City, Texas, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 569 | Guy support wire severed | Total collapse during installation of 6-ton FM antenna on new 1800 ft. tower. Five technicians killed: two on the hoist riding the FM antenna up and three on the tower. Determined insufficient sized bolts on the makeshift lifting lug extension failed. The falling debris severed one of the tower's guy wires which caused the tower to whip back and forth and collapse. | ||
| KANU tower, Lawrence, KS | Guyed steel lattice mast | 184 | Sabotage | Guy wires severed | ||
| CKX-TV Craig Television Tower, Canada | Guyed mast | 412 | Ice | |||
| TV mast Wavre, Belgium | Guyed mast | 315 | Storm | |||
| KWWL, Rowley, Iowa | Guyed steel lattice mast | 610 | Ice | |||
| Bielstein, West Germany | Guyed steel tube mast | 298 | Ice | |||
| San Francisco, CA, US - Candlestick Hill | Self-supporting tower | 137 | High wind | KYA transmitter placed in service in 1937. Failure may have resulted from tower leg insulator replacement where all-thread rod was not long enough to fully engage securing nut. | ||
| Caroline 558 and Radio Monique mast, aboard MV Ross Revenge, off English coast | Lattice steel tower | 92 | Force 8 storm | Tallest ever mast aboard any ship. It was replaced by horizontal wire antenna between two shorter masts. | ||
| KTUL Tower Coweta, OK | Lattice steel guyed tower | 582 | Ice storm | Listed at 1909 feet | ||
| a mast in NRTA Transmitting Station 501, Anning, Kunming, Yunnan, China | Guyed steel lattice mast | 143.5 | Material fault and high winds[12] | |||
| KTVO-TV Tower, Colony, Missouri | Guyed steel lattice mast | 610 | Maintenance | Crew was replacing cross support beams at the 200 meter level. The mast broke at that spot, the bottom 200 meters fell to the south, the top fell straight down. All three workers on the mast were killed. | ||
| Zhumadian Prefecture TV & FM Relay Station, Zhumadian, Zhumadian Prefecture, Henan, China | [13] | Guyed steel lattice mast | 55 | Ice storm | ||
| KGO (AM) towers Newark, California | ? | 91 | Earthquake | Three towers damaged | ||
| WRAL-TV & WPTF-TV towers, Auburn | Two guyed steel tube framework masts | 609 | Ice | Unusually heavy ice concentrated at top predominantly on one side of towers caused asymmetrical load. Dislodged essentially as one piece during rapid warming; sudden unloading caused dynamic failure. | ||
| Minnkota power cooperative, near Langdon, North Dakota, US | guyed steel triangular tower | 107 | Underground corrosion of guy wire steel and anchor shaft | Two tower service personnel were seriously injured | ||
| RÚV long wave radio mast, Vatnsendahæð, Reykjavik, Iceland | Guyed steel lattice mast | 150 | Storm | |||
| WDIO-TV Duluth, Minnesota, US | Guyed steel triangular tower | 259 | Ice and high wind | Freezing rain, accompanied at time with thunder, coated the city of Duluth with as much as six inches of ice. The 850-foot WDIO-TV tower was toppled as winds gusted to 40 mph, buffeting the heavily ice-covered tower. The tower fell onto a nearby utility line which provided power to the remainder of Duluth's television and FM radio stations, and all but one AM radio station. Telephone and power lines snapped leaving Duluth and many northeastern Minnesota communities without utility services for 24 hours. The DNR reported that four million pine trees were damaged or destroyed. - NOAA NWS Duluth, MN | ||
| Hekou MW Transmitting Station, Hekou, Honghe, Yunnan, China | Guyed steel lattice mast | 133.5 | High winds | |||
| Warsaw radio mast, Konstantynów, Poland | Guyed steel tube framework mast | 648 | Maintenance | Replacement by facility in Solec Kujawski | ||
| Kuruk-tagh Relay Station, Korla, Bayingolin, Xinjiang, China | Lattice steel tower | 60 | High winds | |||
| WCIX TV Tower Homestead, Florida | Guyed steel tower | 549 | Hurricane Andrew | Rebuilt by LeBlanc Tower of Canada | ||
| COMMSTA Miami | Guyed mast (insulated) | 91 | Hurricane Andrew | Collapse of 2 masts | ||
| Cape Race LORAN-C transmitter, Cape Race, Canada | Guyed steel lattice mast | 411 | Material fault | Fatigue failure of the eyebolt head in a compression cone insulator on structural guy caused swing-in damage, which resulted in structural collapse | ||
| LORAN-C transmitter Kargaburan, Kargaburan, Turkey | Guyed steel lattice mast | 191 | Snowstorm | Tower had construction faults | ||
| WCOV-TV Tower, Montgomery, Alabama, US | ? | 242 | Tornado | |||
| Yosami Transmitting Station mast No.8, Kariya, Aichi, Japan | Guyed steel lattice mast | 250 | Structural failure during dismantling | One worker was killed and four workers were injured. | ||
| Langenberg, Germany | Guyed steel lattice mast | 160 | Maintenance | |||
| KXTX-TV Tower Cedar Hill, Texas | Guyed steel tower | 468 | Maintenance for DTV install | Three died when tower collapsed after a gin pole ran off its track and snapped a guy wire | ||
| Grigoriopol transmitter, Moldova | Guyed steel lattice mast | 350 | Ice | Two masts collapsed | ||
| 250 | ||||||
| KXJB-TV mast, North Dakota, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 628 | Ice | |||
| KNOE-TV Tower, Columbia, Louisiana | Guyed steel lattice mast | 606 | Maintenance | One killed, two injured when workers failed to install temporary braces | ||
| WLBT Tower, Raymond, Mississippi | Guyed steel lattice | 609 | Maintenance | Three killed - temporary braces failed during HDTV antenna upgrade | ||
| Sakaide Transmission Tower, Kagawa Prefecture, Shikoku Island, Japan | Steel lattice | 73 | Vandalism, possible sabotage | 76 bolts were removed without authorization from the base of the tower. The perpetrator has not been identified to this date.[14] [15] | ||
| WKY-AM-TV Tower, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US | Guyed mast | 293 | Tornado | |||
| TV Tower Avala, Serbia | Concrete tower (with observation deck) | 203 | Air raid (NATO bombardment during the Kosovo war) | |||
| Bozhou Educational TV Tower, Xuege Subdistrict, Bozhou, Anhui, China | Square lattice roof top tower | 98 (40 + 58 (building + tower))[16] | Storm | The tower on the roof collapsed to street. Two persons were killed.[17] | ||
| WMBD AM radio tower, Peoria, Illinois, US | Thunderstorm winds | Early morning thunderstorm wind event with estimated damage of $500,000 | ||||
| WRMD-Tower, St. Petersburg, Florida, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 198 | Helicopter crash | Three died when a medical helicopter hit a guy wire in clear weather and crashed | ||
| WNWI 1080-Towers, Oak Lawn (Chicago), Illinois, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 61 | Sabotage | Two towers collapsed | ||
| KXEO/KWWR-Tower, Mexico, MO, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 123 | Storm | |||
| Linquan Radio & TV Transmitting Station (old), Linquan, Fuyang, Anhui, China | Guyed steel lattice tower | 103[18] | Structural failure during dismantling | Two workers were killed, and one worker was seriously injured.[19] | ||
| CBC Tower, Shawinigan, QC, Canada | Guyed steel lattice mast | 331.5 (307.1 + 24.4 (structure + antenna)) | Controlled implosion after aircraft crash caused serious damage five days earlier | Rebuilt in 2003, the new tower has almost the same height, i.e. 326.8m (307.1m for the structure, but the antenna is shorter (19.7m)). | ||
| Angara transmitter, Northern Mast, Angara, Russia | Guyed steel lattice mast carrying a T-antenna | 205 | Deteriorated support guys | |||
| World Trade Center North Tower, New York City, NY | Truses and Axis | 526.8 (417 + 109.8 (roof + antenna)) | Terrorist attack | Tower was destroyed as a result of the September 11 attacks in which a commercial airliner flew into the side of the building causing it and the broadcast tower to collapse under its own weight. | ||
| Krasny Bor transmitter, Russia | Guyed steel lattice mast | 258 | Helicopter collision | |||
| a mast in Datong MW Transmitting Station, Yunzhou District, Datong, Shanxi, China | Guyed steel lattice mast | 151.5 | High winds and corrosion | |||
| WKFT, North Carolina, US | Guyed steel tower | 533.1 | Airplane crash | Pilot killed and the tower was destroyed | ||
| Nanxian Radio & TV Transmitting Station, Nanxian, Yiyang, Hunan, China | Free-standing steel lattice tower | 100[20] | Storm | |||
| KDUH-TV Mast, Hemingford, Nebraska, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 599 | Maintenance | Two workers killed, three injured on ground | ||
| WVAH-TV Tower, West Virginia, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 473 | Ice | |||
| WPAY-Tower, Portsmouth, Ohio, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 200 | Ice | |||
| WTNV-FM Tower, Jackson, Tennessee, US | Free-standing steel lattice tower | 176 | Tornado | |||
| WMBD Tower, Peoria, Illinois, US | Free-standing steel lattice tower | ? | Tornado | Collapse of three towers, following collapse of larger single tower at same site by straight-line winds on 20 April 2000 | ||
| KETV TV Tower | Guyed steel lattice mast | 415 | Reconstruction work | |||
| WIFR TV tower | Guyed steel lattice mast | 222 | Storm (derecho) | |||
| WAAY-TV - TV Mast, Huntsville, Alabama, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 305 | unknown | Three workers killed | ||
| Utrecht, Netherlands | Guyed steel lattice mast | 45 | ||||
| WJDB Transmitter Grove Hill, AL | Guyed steel lattice mast | 131 | Hurricane Ivan | Replacement tower constructed shortly thereafter. Also knocked Clarke County, AL, Sheriff's Office off the air (KWO611) | ||
| WPMI-TV Tower, Robertsdale, Alabama, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 518 | Storm | Hurricane Ivan | ||
| Peterborough, Great Britain | Guyed steel lattice mast | 163 | Fire (suspected vandalism) | Temporary replacement mast constructed shortly thereafter. New permanent mast entered full service in February 2006. | ||
| KFI Mast, La Mirada, CA, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 195 | Aircraft collision | |||
| WLGA Transmitter Tower (formerly WSWS-TV Transmitter Tower), Cusseta, Georgia, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 538 | Replacement tower completed September 15, 2005. | |||
| Nebraska Education Tower Atlanta, Atlanta, Nebraska, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 325 | Aircraft collision | All three aircraft occupants killed | ||
| KLTV-TV Mast, Tyler, TX (Red Springs, TX) | Guyed steel lattice mast | 329 | Undetermined | 1078 feet HAAT. Erected in 1981. No definitive cause ever found for collapse. Speculation was that the collapse was directly or indirectly related to the recent installation of their digital television antenna. The collapse destroyed the tower, KLTV's analog and digital antennas, KLTV's digital transmitter, and FM station KVNE's antenna. The analog transmitter was undamaged, and within a few days was moved to KLTV's backup tower in east Tyler. The collapse occurred the day after Raycom Media officially took ownership of the station. | ||
| Torre VIP de Rádio & TV, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil | Guyed steel lattice mast | 174 | Maintenance | One person was killed | ||
| WACS-TV tower | Guyed steel lattice mast | 329 | EF3 tornado | Americus, Georgia, was struck by the tornado a few minutes later | ||
| WSKY-DT Tower, Camden County, NC, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 230 | Guy wire anchor failure | Under construction. Also destroyed transmitter building. Was planned for a height of 1,036 ft (315.77 m).[21] | ||
| WCFE-DT, Clinton, County, NY, US | Guyed steel tower | 136 | Structural failure | 400-foot transmitter tower located on Averil Peak, NY completely collapsed as a result of accumulation of ice and snow from the April 2007 Nor'easter. Partially damaged the transmitter building at the base. New tower erected and back in service Oct, 9 2007. | ||
| Browns Summit Crown Castle Broadcasting Tower, Browns Summit, Texas, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 244 | Restoration work | |||
| WNEP-TV Tower, Penobscot Knob Pennsylvania | Guyed steel lattice mast | 244 | Ice | Also damaged transmitter building and doppler radar.[22] | ||
| WVIA-TV Tower, Penobscot Knob | Guyed steel lattice mast | 510 | Ice | 300 ft. section lost from top of tower[23] | ||
| KATV-TV Tower, Redfield, Jefferson County, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 609 | Maintenance | Restringing guy wires[24] | ||
| a mast in Inner Mongolia Transmitting Station 610, Tumed Left Banner, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China | Guyed steel lattice mast | 152 | High winds | |||
| Emmis Television Wichita Tower | Guyed steel lattice mast | 326 | Ice | |||
| 2QN Tower, Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia | Guyed steel lattice mast | 102 | Storm | Wind gust reportedly caused the mast to collapse during a severe storm | ||
| Jinzhou Radio & TV Tower, Jinzhou Town, Jinzhou, Hebei, China | Free-standing steel lattice tower | 186.8 | Storm[25] | |||
| KRKO Radio Towers | Guyed steel lattice mast | ? | Terrorism | Two masts | ||
| WLHR-FM Radio Tower Lavonia, GA, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 86 | Sabotage | Guyed wires cut | ||
| a MW mast[26] and 3 SW masts[27] in Qinghai Transmitting Station 920, Gyêgu, Yushu, Qinghai, China | Guyed steel lattice mast (MW) Guyed steel tubular mast (SW) | 76 (MW) & 25 (SW) | 2010 Yushu earthquake | |||
| Laomaling Radio & TV Transmitting Station, Pingshun, Changzhi, Shanxi, China | Guyed steel lattice mast | 72 | High winds | |||
| WEAU TV/Radio Tower Fairchild, WI, US | Guyed steel lattice mast | 609 | Ice, high winds | Weather-related | ||
| Zendstation Smilde, TV/Radio Tower, Hoogersmilde, The Netherlands | Guyed steel tube mast on concrete tower | 303 | Fire | Tubular steel superstructure collapsed, new steel lattice superstructure constructed (2012) on top of existing concrete base tower | ||
| Zhutiao TV Transposer Station, Niushou, Fancheng, Xiangyang, Hubei, China | Free-standing steel lattice tower | 70 | Storm | |||
| LRL312 Mega 98.3, LR5 Pop Radio 101.5 and LRL317 FM Federal | Guyed | 210 | Fire | Fire started in a leftover deposit close to one of the guy wire anchors.[28] [29] [30] | ||
| Baofeng Radio & TV Transmitting Station, Baofeng, Pingdingshan, Henan, China | Free-standing steel lattice tower | 136[31] | High winds[32] | |||
| Longwave transmitter Europe 1, 280 metres mast, Felsberg-Berus, Germany | Guyed steel lattice mast | 280 | Ragged guy wire | Pinnacle and upper sections fell down | ||
| main mast of Gwangju CBS Sillyong Transmitting Station, Gwangsan District, Gwangju, South Korea | Guyed steel lattice mast | 110 | Typhoon Bolaven (2012) | [33] | ||
| Boll Relay Transmitter, Oberndorf-Boll, Germany | Lattice tower | 30 | Truck collision[34] | |||
| Houston public safety radio tower | Guyed | 152 | Unknown | |||
| Karachun TV Tower, Sloviansk, Ukraine | Guyed steel lattice mast | 222 | Artillery shelling | During the final days of the siege of Sloviansk Ukrainian Government forces positioned on the Mount Karachun were shelled by the Russian proxies. As a result, the guy wires failed and tower collapsed.[35] The new tower 50 m shorter was opened on December 5, 2016, in place of the destroyed one.[36] | ||
| CRTV Mast, Logbessou, Douala, Cameroon | Guyed | 200 | Corrosion | Mast collapsed during replacement of corroded leg at 160m. Four riggers killed.[37] | ||
| Rekowo Radio Mast, Rekowo, Poland | Guyed | 60 | Storm | |||
| Häglared transmitter, Borås, Sweden | Guyed mast of lattice steel | 332 | Sabotage | Roughly half of the mast fell after guy wires had been sabotaged. | ||
| RTI Lukang Branch north array tower T1 & T3, Lukang, Changhua, Taiwan | Free-standing steel lattice tower | 125 | Typhoon Megi[38] | |||
| Yancheng Radio & TV Transmitting Station (old), Tinghu District, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China | Free-standing steel lattice tower | 135 | Structural failure during dismantling | Two workers were killed.[39] | ||
| SPR TV tower, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico | ? | ? | High winds[40] | |||
| KOZK Ozarks Public Television, Fordland, MO | Guyed | 597 | Maintenance | Six workers were performing routine maintenance at 105 ft on the tower when it collapsed, one worker was killed. | ||
| Amami FM Ariya Transmitting Station, Amami, Kagoshima, Japan | Guyed steel lattice mast[41] | 30[42] | Typhoon Trami | Replaced by a 25m steel monopole tower. | ||
| a backup mast in Fujian Transmitting Station 103 Wuliting Site, Jin'an District, Fuzhou, Fujian, China | Guyed steel lattice mast | 76 | Excavator collision with guy wire[43] | |||
| KOLN Tower, Beaver Crossing, Nebraska, USA | Guyed | 500.4 | Ice | Collapsed during an ice storm.[44] | ||
| a tower in RTI Lukang Branch south array, Lukang, Changhua, Taiwan | Free-standing steel lattice tower | 75 | Typhoon Nesat[45] | |||
| a tower in RTI Lukang Branch north array, Lukang, Changhua, Taiwan | Free-standing steel lattice tower | 125 | Typhoon Nesat | |||
| KDLO-TV Towers, Florence, South Dakota, USA | Guyed steel lattice mast | 548.6 & 243.8 | Ice | 2 towers collapsed during an ice storm.[46] |