Worst Industrial Accidents in History

The following table includes information about the worst industrial disasters in history.

Year	Day	Incident	Location	Fatalities
2013	04/24	Rana Plaza, a building containing several factories, collapses	Savar, Bangladesh	more than 1,100
1984	12/02	42 tons of lethal methyl isocyanate leak from the Union Carbide pesticide plant	Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India	2,259 (immediately) An estimated 25,000 are believed to have died since from the exposure
1942	04/26	A coal dust and gas explosion in a mine	Benxihu Colliery, Benxi Liaoning, China	1,549
1986	04/26	Explosion during an unauthorized test at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant	Prypiat, Ukraine	50 due to radiation 3,940 due to radiation induced cancer and leukemia
1947	04/16	Fire near 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate on S.S. Grandcamp causes explosion	Port of Texas City, Texas, USA	581
1984	11/19	Explosions at a Liquid Petroleum Gas tank farm	San Juanico, Mexico	500
1906	03/10	Coal dust explosion	Courrieres, France	1,099
1976	07/10	ICMESA, a chemical manufacturing plant, releases dioxins (TCDD)	Seveso, Italy	3,300 farm animals 80,000 animals are later slaughtered
1989	03/24	Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker, spills 260,000 to 750,000 barrels of crude oil into the sea	Prince William Sounds, Alaska, USA	100,000 to 250,000 seabirds
2000	05/13	Explosion at a fireworks storage depot	Enschede, Netherlands	23