← Engineering Catastrophes

Season 7

10 episodes · 2023

  1. 1Pacific Coast Bridge Collapse

    18 Oct 2023 · 41 min

    Residents along the Pacific Coast Highway are cut off from the outside world after a storm causes a bridge to buckle. Experts reveal how the construction method of the old concrete bridge left it vulnerable to erosion on the steep coastline

  2. 2Island Observatory Failure

    25 Oct 2023 · 41 min

    An iconic telescope in Puerto Rico suffers a spectacular collapse.

  3. 3Tower Crane Calamity

    01 Nov 2023 · 41 min

    A crane collapse leaves seven dead on a holiday weekend in Manhattan.

  4. 4The Fern Hollow Fiasco

    08 Nov 2023 · 42 min

    A morning commute becomes dangerous when a bridge collapses in Pittsburgh.

  5. 5Nebraska Bomb Cyclone

    15 Nov 2023 · 42 min

    An aging dam in Nebraska fails after the area is pummeled by a superstorm.

  6. 6Art School Inferno

    22 Nov 2023 · 41 min

    A distinguished library is ravaged by not one but two disastrous fires.

  7. 7Gas Leak Catastrophe

    29 Nov 2023 · 42 min

    Twenty people are killed after a hotel explodes in America's heartland.

  8. 8The Bronx Sinkhole

    06 Dec 2023 · 42 min

    A sinkhole envelops a residential street in the Bronx.

  9. 9Shopping Center Tragedy

    13 Dec 2023 · 42 min

    Tragedy strikes in San Juan when an explosion rocks a busy shopping center.

  10. 10Chemical Plant Calamity

    20 Dec 2023 · 42 min

    An explosion at a chemical plant in New Jersey kills five workers.