List of modern infrastructure failures

Infrastructure includes the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function. This entry aggregates articles on and lists of modern infrastructure failures by category (type of infrastructure).

Structural

• List of structural failures and collapses
• Category:Collapsed buildings and structures
• List of bridge failures
• List of dam failures
• Category:Dam failures
• Levee failures and breaches
• List of catastrophic collapses of radio masts and towers

Electrical and utility

• Power outages
• 2007 New York City steam explosion
• Electric power blackouts

Transportation

• Lists of rail accidents
• Accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
• Airship accidents
• Accidents and disasters by death toll
• Road accidents
• Airliner accidents and incidents caused by in-flight structural failure
• Airliner accidents and incidents caused by mechanical failure

Nuclear

• Nuclear accidents
• Nuclear and radiation accidents
• Military nuclear accidents
• Civilian nuclear power accidents
• Nuclear accidents and incidents

Space

• Space Shuttle: Columbia disaster, Challenger disaster
• Space accidents and incidents

Other

• Engineering failures
• Collapsed oil platforms