Oppau explosion at a BASF plant in Germany possibly as many as 1,500 were killed Texas City disaster in the Port of Texas City over 5,000 were also injured.
Įxplosion of the Caterina Costa, at port of Naples over 3000 were also injuredĮxplosion of dynamite cargo on the steamship Cabo Machichaco, in at the port of Santander, Spain, with more than 2,000 injured. Iraqi military plant with facilities explode at Al Hillah, Babil, IraqĮxplosion of a dynamite depot in Brazil.
Propellant explosion of the British dreadnought battleship HMS Vanguardīombay Docks Explosion in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British Indiaīritish pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Bulwark destroyed due to a magazine explosion Jesse pipeline explosion, near Lagos, NigeriaĪmmunition transporter explosion in Hamont, BelgiumĮxplosion of a gunpowder factory in Grenelle, France Lagos Armoury Explosion, in Lagos, Nigeria many deaths were from drowning during the resulting panic Japanese battleship Mutsu, at Hashirajima harbor, 1943 due to magazine explosion ship sank on 9 June Military warehouse explodes and kills up to two-thirds of the population of Campo Maior district of Portalegre, Portugal Īmmunition trucks explode near a railway station in Cali, Colombia Įxplosion of ammunition on the Chinese troopship Kuang Yuang, near Kiukiang, China Smederevo Fortress explosion of stockpiled ammunition at Smederevo Fortress near Belgrade in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia Halifax Explosion in Nova Scotia, Canada Īmmunition warehouse explodes and kills almost all of Oaxaca brigade, in San Andrés Chalchicomula, Mexico, during the first days of Second French intervention in Mexico Other sources suggest this figure is inaccurate. Wanggongchang Explosion in Beijing, China in the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people Ī lightning bolt caused the Brescia explosion of a gunpowder depot in Brescia (Italy), destroying one-sixth of the city īoiler 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. This list does not include bombings, aviation incidents, or mining disasters. Some numbers in the table below reflect both immediate and delayed deaths related to accidents, while many do not.Īccidents with at least 200 deaths. This was the case particularly in such cases as exposure to contaminated air, toxic chemicals or radiation, some years later due to lung damage, cancer, etc. While all of the listed accidents caused immediately massive numbers of lives lost, further widespread deaths were connected to many of these incidents, often the result of prolonged or lingering effects of the initial catastrophe. Purposeful disasters, such as terrorist attacks, are omitted those events can be found at List of battles and other violent events by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions, structural fires, flood disasters, coal mine disasters, and other notable accidents caused by the effects of negligence of the human race connected to improper architecture, planning, construction, design, and more. This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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