Infrastructure includes the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, ^[1] 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 [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

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

Transportation [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

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

Space [ edit ]

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

Other [ edit ]

• Engineering failures
• Collapsed oil platforms

References [ edit ]