List of modern infrastructure failures explained

Infrastructure includes the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise,^[1] or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function. This entry aggregates articles on and lists of modern infrastructure failures by category (type of infrastructure).

Structural

• List of structural failures and collapses
  • List of bridge failures
• List of dam failures
  • Levee failures and breaches
• List of catastrophic collapses of radio masts and towers

Electrical and utility

• Power outages
• 2007 New York City steam explosion
• Electric power blackouts

Transportation

• Lists of rail accidents
• Accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
• Airship accidents
• Accidents and disasters by death toll
• Road accidents
• Airliner accidents and incidents caused by in-flight structural failure
• Airliner accidents and incidents caused by mechanical failure

Nuclear

• Nuclear accidents
• Nuclear and radiation accidents
• Military nuclear accidents
• Civilian nuclear power accidents
• Nuclear accidents and incidents

Space

• Space Shuttle: Columbia disaster, Challenger disaster
• Space accidents and incidents

Other

• Engineering failures
• Collapsed oil platforms

Notes and References

1. Infrastructure, Online Compact Oxford English Dictionary, http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/infrastructure (accessed January 17, 2009)