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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 caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
Pages in category "Caving incidents and rescues" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Domestic deaths due to war in America are included except the American Civil War. For stats on this and U.S. military deaths in foreign locations, see United States military casualties of war and list of battles with most United States military fatalities. Due to inflation, the monetary damage estimates are not comparable. Unless otherwise ...
1963 Chualar bus crash, Chualar, California; 32 killed plus 25 injured. Remains the deadliest U.S. traffic accident to date and California's deadliest to involve a train; also one of a series of events that led to closer scrutiny of migrant labor conditions and fueled the emergence of the chicano and farmworkers labor movements [179] [180]
Here is Fox News Digital's list of the most disastrous freak accidents in 2024. Multiple People Electrocuted In ‘Freak Accident’ While Enjoying Swim In Pool: Police
The Monongah mining disaster was a coal mine explosion on December 6, 1907, at Fairmont Coal Company's Nos. 6 and 8 mines in Monongah, West Virginia, which killed 362 miners.
A 19-year-old college student died on Tuesday in Massachusetts after a skiing accident. Alex Kemp, a Williams College freshman from New Jersey, was skiing at the Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort in ...
In the years following the accident, multiple books were written detailing the ill-fated climb. Snyder and Wilcox both published books from person experiences: In the Hall of the Mountain King: The True Story of a Tragic Climb, which Snyder published in 1973, and White Winds: America's Most Tragic Climb, which Wilcox published in 1981.