List of modern infrastructure failures
# 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
