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  2. USS Hartford grounding - Wikipedia

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    Damage to USS Hartford ' s rudder.. Navy divers from USS Emory S. Land inspected Hartford the next day and found large areas of the hull scraped down to bare metal. [6] Sound damping anechoic tiles had been ripped away, metal grates over the ballast tanks had been badly distorted and the passive sonar hydrophone system damaged in three separate locations. [6]

  3. Big Blue crane collapse - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] A safety inspector was filming construction of the stadium on that day and captured the collapse on video as it occurred. Wind speeds were between 20 and 21 miles per hour (32 and 34 km/h), with gusts of up to 26 to 27 miles per hour (42 to 43 km/h), at the time of the collapse. [ 4 ]

  4. Yan Lift - Wikipedia

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    The nameplate found on Lift Engineering's ski lifts. Yan Lift, incorporated as Lift Engineering & Mfg. Co., was a major ski lift manufacturer in North America. Founded in 1965 and based in Carson City, Nevada, the company built at least 200 fixed-grip chairlifts, [citation needed] as well as 31 high-speed quads. [1]

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  6. List of military disasters - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] A huge Persian fleet was defeated by a united Greek force. Syracuse Expedition (415–413 BC). [9] [10] A large force from Athens failed to conquer the city of Syracuse, weakening the Athenian military position and depriving the city of much-needed manpower. Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC).

  7. Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents - Wikipedia

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    A related cause of accidents is failure of control software, as in the cases involving the Therac-25 medical radiotherapy equipment: the elimination of a hardware safety interlock in a new design model exposed a previously undetected bug in the control software, which could have led to patients receiving massive overdoses under a specific set ...

  8. List of industrial disasters - Wikipedia

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    The alcohol spill also depleted the oxygen in the river, killing an estimated 228,000 fish along a 66-mile stretch. The EPA and the Coast Guard's Gulf Strike Team aerated the river using equipment mounted on barges. [35] The company paid $256,000 to the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife in an effort to restore the fish population in the ...

  9. All the most jaw-dropping wardrobe malfunctions of 2017 -- so far

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    There have been no shortage of wardrobe malfunctions in 2017, and we have stars like Bella Hadid, Chrissy Teigen and Courtney Stodden to thank for that.