Accidents happen, and when mishap and misfortune strike in an industrial scenario, the results are very often tragic. Take a ...

It was the worst industrial accident in U.S. history. Besides the eerie timing, Wednesday's plant fire and explosion and the Texas City disaster had the same cause in common: chemical fertilizer.

The deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant that ripped through the town of West, Texas, on Wednesday, stirred echoes of one of the worst industrial accidents in United States history, which struck ...

The stock market crash of October 1929 signaled the end of the "Roaring Twenties" and the beginning of the Great Depression.

Sadly, both calamities are a drop in the bucket of overall accidents involving the Air Force over the past century. The worst accident for the U.S. Air Force occurred on December 20, 1952 ...

Dozens of people have died, and hundreds were injured in the blast at a chemical plant in eastern China, making it one of the country's worst industrial accidents in recent times. The explosion ...

Source: Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images It a story that begins with the collapse of the West Gate Bridge in 1970 and the deaths of 35 workers in Australia’s worst industrial accident.