For supplementary information related to accidents and accident risk, please visit:

• Science & Society: Global Challenges Discussion Series at the site of American Chemical Society

2011

• Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan - following an earthquake and tsunami on 11 March.

2010

• The Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico started 20 April, 2010 
• Accident on the Gullfaks C platform in the North Sea (Statoil report - in Norwegian)

2009

• Blowout from Montara wellhead platform offshore Australia (inquiry report). See also video.
• Air France AF447, Airbus 330 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June 2009. (228 fatalities) 

2005

• A series of four bomb attacks struck three London Underground trains and a bus in central London during the morning rush hours of Thursday, 7 July (56 fatalities and more than 700 injured)
• Explosion and fire at BP's refinery in Texas City on March 23. (15 fatalities and 180 injuries)

2004

• A major subsea eartquake (magn. 9.0) off the west coast of northern Sumatra on 26. December created a huge Tsunami that killed near 300.000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, etc.
• A bus collided with a truck-trailer carrying rolls of paper near Äänekoski in Finland (23 fatalities)
• The bulk carrier "Rockness" carrying rocks capsized in a narrow fjord near Bergen, Norway (18 fatalities)
• Terrorist attack to several trains near Atocha train station in Madrid (191 fatalities)
• Earthquake near north coast of Morocco (magn. 6.4) on 24. February (At least 628 fatalities)
• Gas blowout at the Snorre platform in the North Sea (see www.ptil.no/articles-in-safety-status-and-signals-2012-2013/snorre-a-an-intense-drama-article9148-1095.html)

2003

• Colombia space shuttle accident: Space shuttle "Columbia" exploded on re-entry into the earth's atmosphere over Texas, USA (7 fatalities).

2002

• Überlingen mid-air collision: Two aircrafts, a Tupolev TU 154M passenger jet carrying 57 passengers - mostly children - and 12 crew and a Boeing 757 cargo jet with two pilots, crashed mid-air over the town Überlingen in southern Germany. All the 71 people on board the aircrafts were killed.
• Prestige oil spill: Oil tanker "Prestige" went down off the Spanish coast (spill: 77,000 tonnes)
• Tricolor ship accident: The car-carrier ship "Tricolor" collided with the container ship Kariba and sank at 30 m of depth, in the Pas-de-Calais, 20 miles north-west of Dunkirk. Close to 3000 luxury cars were lost, and some oil spilled.

2001

• Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York 11. September
• The AZF plant in Toulouse exploded 21. September (29 fatalities)
• Airbus A300 from American Airlines in Queens, New York (260 fatalities)
• An MD-87 from SAS crashed into a Cessna Citation II plane at Linate Airport in Milan (118 fatalities)
• A Tupolev TU-154 from Sibirian Airlines was shot down by an S-200 missile over the Black Sea (76 fatalities)
• A Boeing 757 from United Airlines from Newark to San Francisco crashed in Pennsylvania 11.09 after being taken by terrorists (45 fatalities)
• A Boeing 767 from American Airlines from Boston to Los Angeles crashed into the Worlsd trade Center 11.09 - terrorist attack (92 fatalities)
• A Boeing 767 from United Airlines from Boston to Los Angeles crashed into the World Trade Center 11.09 - terrorist atack (65 fatalities)
• A Boeing 757 from American Airlines from Washington DC to Los Angeles crashed into Pentagon in Washington DC 11.09 - terrorist attack (64 fatalities)

2000

• Submarine K-141 "Kursk" accident in the Barent Sea (117 fatalities)
• A Concorde from Air France crashed after take-off from the Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris (113 fatalities)
• Train crash near Åsta, Norway (19 fatalities)
• Gas pipeline ruptured near Carlsbad, New Mexico, U.S.A. Gas ignited. (12 fatalities)

1999

• Oil tanker "Erika" went down outside Brest, Brittany, France (spill: 20,000 tonnes)
• Passenger ship Sleipner capsized close to Ryvarden Fyr outside Haugesund (16 fatalities)
• Nuclear accident at Tokaimura, approx. 120 km north-east of Tokyo (2 fatalities, more than 400 exposed to radiation - www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/commission/secys/2000/secy2000-0085/attachment1.pdf)
• Train crash in south-east India (approx 500 fatalities)
• Train collision west of Paddington station (near Ladbrooke Grove), London - a driver passed a red light. (31 fatalities)
• Gas pipeline ruptured in Bellington, Washington, U.S.A. Approx. one million liters of gasoline were released and ignited, producing a fireball (3 fatalities)

1998

• Gas explosion in the Esso-Longford plant in Victoria, Australia (2 fatalities)
• A high speed train crashed into a bridge near Eschede, Germany (101 fatalities)
• An MD-11 from Swissair from New York to Geneva crashed outside Nova Scotia (229 fatalities)
• An Airbus A300 from China Airlines crashed close to Taipei, Taiwan (202 fatalities)
• A train derailed near Jyväskylä, Finland (10 fatalities)

1997

• Super Puma helicopter crashed on its way to the Norne field in the North Sea (12 fatalities)
• A Boeing 727 from TAP crashed close to Funchal, Madeira (123 fatalities)
• An Airbus A300 from Garuda Indonesian Airways crashed just before landing at Medan, Indonesia (234 fatalities)
• A Boeing 747 from Korean Airlines crashed just before landing at the Agana airport on the Guam island (228 fatalities)
• A high speed train ran into an empty freight train near Southall, UK. (7 fatalities)

1996

• Sea Empress oil spill: Oil tanker "Sea Empress" grounded at Milford haven in South Wales, UK. (spill: 72,000 tonnes)
• A Boeing 747 from Saudi-Arabia had a mid-air crash with an Ilushin-76 from Kasakstan near New Dehli in India (349 fatalities)
• A Tupolev 154 chrashed at Svalbard (141 fatalities)
• A Boeing 747 from TWA exploded outside Long Island (230 fatalities)
• A russian cargo plane crashed into a market place in Kingshasa, Congo (237 fatalities)

1995

• Major earthquake near Kobe, Japan (6433 fatalities)

1994

• Passenger ferry "Estonia" capsized off Finland (852 fatalities)
• Chinook helicopter crashed into the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland (29 fatalities)
• An Airbus A300 from China Airlines crashed during landing at the Nagano airport, Japan (264 fatalities)

1993

• Oil tanker "Braer" accident at Garth Ness, Shetland (spill: 85,000 tonnes)

1992

• A Boeing 747 Cargo from Israel crashed into an appartment block in Bijlemermeer outside Amsterdam (70 fatalities)
• An Airbus A300 from Pakistan Airlines crashed close to Katmandu, Nepal (167 fatalities)
• Oil tanker "Aegean Sea" went down at La Coruna, Spain (spill: 74,000 tonnes)
• Oil tanker "Katina P." went down off Maputo, Mozambique (spill: 72,000 tonnes)

1991

• A DC-8 from the Canadian Nationalair exploded just after take-off from Jeddah in Saudi-Arabia (261 fatalities)
• A Boeing 767 from Lauda Air crashed after take-off from Phu Khao Chan in Thailand (223 fatalities)
• Oil tanker "ABT Summer" went down 700 miles off Angola (spill: 260,000 tonnes)
• Oil tanker "Haven" went down off Genoa, Italy (spill: 144,000 tonnes)

1990

• The ferry "Scandinavian Star" caught fire between Fredrikshavn and Oslo (158 fatalities)

1989

• Oil tanker "Exxon Valdez" accident in Alaska (spill: 37,000 tonnes)
• Oil tanker "Khark 5" went down 120 nautical miles off the Atlantic coast of Morocco (spill: 80,000 tonnes)

1988

• Piper Alpha accident in the North Sea (167 fatalities)
• A Boeing 747 from Pan AM exploded over Lockerbie in Scotland - terrorist bomb (270 fatalities)
• An Airbus A300 from Iran was shot down by the war-ship "Vincennes" in Hormuz (290 fatalities)
• Oil tanker "Odyssey" went down 700 miles off Nova Scotia, Canada (spill: 132,000 tonnes)
• A commuter train crashed into the back of a stationary train near Clapham Junction south west of London (35 fatalities)

1987

• Ferry "Herald of Free Enterprize" accident outside Zeebrugge, Belgium
• Fire in King's Cross underground station in London (31 fatalities)

1986

• Challenger space shuttle accident
• Chernobyl nuclear accident
• Sandoz warehouse fire (Basel, Switzerland)

1984

• Bhopal accident in India (more than 20000 (?) fatalities)
• Pemex gas explosion in Mexico (452 fatalities)

1983

• Oil tanker "Castillo de Bellver" went down off Saldanha Bay, South Africa (spill: 252,000 tonnes)

1981

• Capsizing of the Aleksander Kielland platform in the North Sea (123 fatalities)

1980

• Oil tanker "Irenes Serenade" went down in Navarino Bay, Greece (spill: 100,000 tonnes)

1979

• Three Mile Island nuclear accident/incident
• Chemical plant explosion in Novosibirsk, Russia (300 (?) fatalities)
• Blowout from drilling rig "Ixtoc 1" in the Gulf of Mexico. The rig was drilling for Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) (spill: > 470,000 tonnes)
• Oil tanker "Atlantic Empress" went down off Tobago, West Indies (spill: 287,000 tonnes)
• Oil tanker "Independenta" went down in Bosphorus, Turkey (spill: 95,000 tonnes)

1978

• Oil tanker "Amoco Cadiz" accident outside Brittany, France (spill: 223,000 tonnes)

1977

• A Boeing 747 from Pan Am collided with a Boeing 747 from KLM at the Tenerife airport (583 fatalities)
• Bravo blowout in the North Sea
• Oil tanker "Hawaiian Patriot" went down 300 nautical miles off Honolulu (spill: 95,000 tonnes)

1976

• Seveso accident in Italy (more than 200 injured)
• Oil tanker "Urquiola" went down at La Coruna, Spain (spill: 100,000 tonnes)

1975

• Oil tanker "Jakob Maersk" went down off Oporto, Portugal (spill: 88,000 tonnes)

1972

• Oil tanker "Sea Star" went down in the Gulf of Oman (spill: 115,000 tonnes)

1967

• Oil tanker "Torrey Cayon" went down close to Scilly Isles, UK (spill: 119,000 tonnes)