/r/CatastrophicFailure

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Videos, gifs, or aftermath photos of machinery, structures, or devices that have failed catastrophically during operation.

Videos, gifs, articles, or aftermath photos of machinery, structures, or devices that have failed catastrophically during operation, destructive testing, and other disasters.

 
Catastrophic Failure refers to the sudden and complete destruction of an object or structure, from massive bridges and cranes, all the way down to small objects being destructively tested or breaking.
 

Posting Rules

  1. No joke submissions/memes
  2. Titles must only be informative/descriptive and include a date, do not editorialize
  3. Avoid posting mundane/every day occurrences like car accidents
  4. No compilations or montages
  5. Always be respectful
  6. If the only notable thing in your submission is injury/death, it belongs in another subreddit
     

 

Flair Rules

  1. If your submission depicts people dying, you must apply the "Visible Fatalities" flair to your post and tag it "NSFW"
  2. If your submission depicts people visibly being seriously injured, you must apply the "Visible Injuries" flair to your post and tag it "NSFW"
  3. If your submission depicts a situation where people were killed, but those people are not directly visible you must apply the "Fatalities" flair to your post (eg. the Hindenburg Disaster, or a plane crash)
  4. If your submission does not require one of those tags, you should pick any of the other flairs to describe what type of failure occurred

 

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/r/CatastrophicFailure

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June 3rd 2023. Calcasieu Refinery Lightning Strike Explosion.

136 Comments
2023/06/05
11:49 UTC
61

4th June 2023 - A landslide at a mine in Leshan City in southwest China's Sichuan Province, where rain has been falling steadily for weeks, killed 19 people.

1 Comment
2023/06/05
05:11 UTC
213

Astronaut Neil Armstrong ejects just in time, as the lunar lander simulator (LLVM) begins to fail. (May 6, 1968)

26 Comments
2023/06/04
15:12 UTC
4,991

an under construction bridge collapsed in Bihar, 04 June 2023

356 Comments
2023/06/04
14:11 UTC
48

The 2020 Livraga (Italy) Train Derailment. Faulty wiring in a set of points and inadequately performed maintenance work cause a high speed train to derail. 2 people die. A link to the full story in the comments.

2 Comments
2023/06/04
13:48 UTC
67

The Bluegill Prime nuclear disaster (1962), a Thor ICBM armed with a live nuclear warhead catches fire and explodes on the launchpad at the American territory of Johnston Atoll during what was supposed to be a high altitude nuclear test.

9 Comments
2023/06/03
22:59 UTC
155

Indonesian Navy Frosch-Class LST, KRI Teluk Hading caught fire in waters of the Selayar Islands, South Sulawesi. 3 June 2023.

14 Comments
2023/06/03
14:34 UTC
2,950

The flood passed through the house. Today in Ankara, Turkey. The lower floors of an apartment were flooded due to the heavy rain.

129 Comments
2023/06/03
13:28 UTC
226

Drone view of the train crash on June 2nd Odisha, India

1 Comment
2023/06/03
10:17 UTC
73

June 01, 2023. DOF Skandi Buzios (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) on fire - no victims reported

2 Comments
2023/06/03
03:41 UTC
70

(Reposting shorter clip) Security camera footage showing very close view of the moment the Davenport, Iowa apartment building began to collapse on Sunday, May 28, 2023. Unfortunately the video cuts out as the failure occurs due to the power going out, so we only see the beginning of the collapse.

10 Comments
2023/06/03
03:05 UTC
127

25 years ago today, in Eschede Germany, a ICE 1 train derailed and crashed into a bridge. The bridge then collapsed and crushed the train, causing 101 casualties. The derailment was caused by a mishaped wheel run.

22 Comments
2023/06/03
02:19 UTC
4,484

Lightning strike causes church fire, and steeple collapse. Spencer, MA. June 2nd, 2023

605 Comments
2023/06/02
23:52 UTC
123

Train Accident Odisha India today 3 train collided.

10 Comments
2023/06/02
19:46 UTC
93

The derailed cars of the Coromandel Express train after a multi-train collision with the Bengaluru-Howrah Express and a Goods Train. The mishap occurred on 2nd June, 2023 in Odisha, India. (Cause unknown, rescue ops underway, fatalities reported, link in the comments).

5 Comments
2023/06/02
19:25 UTC
1,198

3 train accident at same place, Odisha India Today.

78 Comments
2023/06/02
17:28 UTC
146

Update - Video footage of billboard that dropped on the 6th of October road in Egypt

Apparently one person died, three in hospital with severe conditions

4 Comments
2023/06/01
20:40 UTC
2,685

Huge billboard dropped on the 6th of October road, Egypt due to bad weather

76 Comments
2023/06/01
12:36 UTC
3,372

SilencerCO SWR suppressor tested to destruction with 700 continuous rounds of full automatic fire in 2017

328 Comments
2023/05/31
16:39 UTC
1,078

Substation on fire Florida 5/30/23

105 Comments
2023/05/31
11:32 UTC
1,737

May 23, 2023: Part of road next to Pa-bong Cafe in Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand, collapses into water-filled sinkhole.

49 Comments
2023/05/30
20:25 UTC
3,781

The building partially collapsed four days after the city passed its safety inspection. The building is supposedly set to be completely demolished today, but there are still people missing and presumed to be stuck in the building, and dogs have been heard barking in the building as well.

Downtown Davenport, Iowa. 5/30/2023

365 Comments
2023/05/30
16:01 UTC
3,399

January 13, 2012. The cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off the coast of Giglio in Italy. Here it is being salvaged on January 11, 2014, two years after it capsized.

127 Comments
2023/05/30
04:24 UTC
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