List of Accidents and Disasters By Death Toll - Structural Collapses

Structural Collapses

1. est. 20,000 dead or wounded – Fidenae amphitheatre collapse, 27AD.
2. 1,112 – Upper tier collapse of the Circus Maximus, (Ancient Rome, c.140 AD)
3. 502 – Sampoong Department Store collapse (Seoul, South Korea, June 29, 1995).
4. ~200 – Collapse of wooden bleachers at Corralejas bullring/stadium, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia, January 20, 1980.
5. 153 – Illegally constructed nine-story buildings with Spectrum Sweater and Knitting factory collapse (Palash Bari, outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2005).
6. 140 – Makahali River bridge collapsed, Baitadi, Makahali, Nepal, on November 19, 1974.
7. 139 – a six-story apartment collapsed at Karachi, Pakistan on September 13, 1976.
8. 135 – Collapse of Royal Plaza Hotel (Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, August 13, 1993).
9. 125 – a wire rope style bridge collapsed over a swollen stream at Munnar, Kerala, India, November 8, 1984.
10. 120 – a nuns' school chapel collapsed at Biblian, Canar, Ecuador on February 1, 1963.
11. 114 – Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, (Kansas City, Missouri, 1981).
12. 112– Yeotmal Shia Imami Ismaili mosque situated in choti gujri, Yavatmal collapsed disaster, present day of Yavatmal, Maharashtra, India on August 20, 1963.
13. 100 – Saque Comprehensive College collapsed at Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, June 16, 1990.
14. 94 – Eleven-story apartment building collapsed at Konya, central Turkey, on February 2, 2004. / Pétionville school collapse, (Pétionville, Haiti, November 7, 2008).
15. 84 – Shigotani dormitory site of under construction Kurobe hydro power-plant station hit avalanche by heavy snow at Kurobe, Toyama, Japan, on December 27, 1938.
16. 82 – Church tower Geldrop, Netherlands, during storm on December 27, 1627.
17. 75 – Quebec Bridge, (Canada, 1907).
18. 74 – Cinema theatre roof collapse (Tokamachi, Japan, January 1, 1938).
19. 73 – Six dormitories of Abe coal mine company collapse with heavy rain at Sasebo, northwestern Kyūshū, Japan, on April 16, 1955.
20. 71 – Dhaka University assembly hall collapsed, Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 16, 1985.
21. 70 – 116 year-old Hintze-Ribeiro Bridge collapse, with a bus and three cars plunged into Douro River at Castelo de Paiva, Aveiro, Portugal on March 4, 2001. / A three-story house collapsed at Lal Bazzar, Srinagar, Jammu and Kasjhhimir, India on May 4, 1992.
22. 69 – Gameleira Exhibition Pavilion collapse (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, February 4, 1971).
23. 67 – Six-story apartment building collapsed at Foggia, Apulia, Italy, on 13 November 1999
24. 65 – Katowice Trade Hall roof collapse (Chorzów, Poland, 28 January 2006).
25. 64 – Twelve-story upmarket building collapsed at Heliopolis, outskirt of Cairo, Egypt, October 27, 1996
26. 60 – Under construction Hau River bridge collapsed at Cần Thơ, Vĩnh Long, Vietnam, on September 26, 2007. / Run Pathani bridge collapsed by flood swept in Mardan, Pashtunkhwa, Pakistan on August 2006. / Under-construction Tuojiang bridge collapsed in Fenghuang, Hunan, China on August 13, 2007.
27. 58 – Via Canosa in Barletta building collapse a five-story apartment building collapsed, Barletta, Apulia, Italy on September 15, 1959.
28. 56 – Market roof collapse (Moscow, Russia, February 21, 2006).
29. 51 – Moqattam Hill rockslide disaster in Manshiyet Nasser erea, Cairo, Egypt, September 6, 2008.
30. 50 – Ordzhonokidze Machine Tool factory roof collapsed by heavy snow at Moscow, Russia, January 17, 1982.
31. 49 – Cais do Sodré railroad station collapsed at Lisbon, Portugal, May 1963
32. 48 – Hulu Kelang Highland Towers collapsed at Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 11, 1993. / Paulo de Frontin Elevated Expressway collapse (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 20, 1971).
33. 47 – Miles City, Montana bridge collapse (United States, 1938).
34. 46 – Silver Bridge Collapse (United States, 1967).
35. 45 – Under-construction Kota Chambal River Bridge collapse in Kota, Rajasthan, India on December 2009.
36. 42 – Cavalese cable-car disaster, (Italy, 1976) / Interstate 880 (Oakland, California, Collapsed due to earthquake, October 17, 1989.)
37. 35 – West Gate Bridge collapse, (Australia, 1970). / Illegally built seven-story building collapse at Alexandria, Egypt, December 24, 2007.
38. 34 – Six-story apartment building collapsed at Castellaneta, Puglia, Taranto, Italy, February 7, 1985
39. 33 – Hotel New World disaster, six-story building collapsed at Serangoon Road, Singapore, March 1986.
40. 32 – Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal bridge collapsed at Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia, July 31, 1988 / Seongsu Bridge collapsed in Han River, Seoul, South Korea on October, 1994.
41. 29 – Under-construction Baikong bridge collapsed, Ruyuan, Shaoguan, Guangdong, China, on December 20, 1996
42. 28 – L'Ambiance Plaza collapsed during construction, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA, April 23, 1987
43. 27 – The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing collapsed during construction in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 17, 1958
44. 26 – Shojuso elderly house with sixty apartment building destroyed by landslide (Nagano, Japan, July 26, 1985).
45. 24 – Unlicenced construct four-story apartment buildings collapsed at Cairo, Egypt, May 3, 1984
46. 23 – Versailles wedding hall, Jerusalem, Israel. Large portion of the third floor of the four-story building collapsed during a wedding,May 24, 2001
47. 20 – Cavalese cable car disaster, (Italy, 1998) cable severed by United States Marine Corps military aircraft / Toyohama road tunnel collapse, Furubira, Hokkaidō, Japan, February 1996. / Chunchu suspension bridge collapse, Napalgunj, Birendranagar, Nepal, December 25, 2007. another 15 missing.
48. 19 – a seven-story apartment building collapsed at Saadatabad, Teheran, Iran on July 1, 2008.
49. 17 – Sete Quedas foot bridge collapsed at Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, January 17, 1982.
50. 14 – Cave Creek disaster A scenic Viewing Platform in Paparoa National Park, on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand collapses. 28 April 1995.
51. 13 – I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse, (Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2007)
52. 11 – Petrobras 36 Oil Platform explosions (Brazil, 2001)
53. 3 – Turia disco lights collapse (Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan; 5 January 1988)