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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about PFOA/C8 Contamination (Dupont Scandal). PFOA has been poisoning living creatures in the Ohio river basin for decades. One brave lawyer took on a huge corporation in this real life David and Goliath story.
Original Air Date: December 12, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/dupont-lawsuits-re-pfoa-pollution-in-usa/
https://peri.umass.edu/toxic-100-air-polluters-index-current
https://www.alleghenyfront.org/ohio-river-communities-are-still-coping-with-teflons-toxic-legacy/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:IARC_Group_2B_carcinogens
https://www.cancer.org/healthy/cancer-causes/chemicals/teflon-and-perfluorooctanoic-acid-pfoa.html#:~:text=IARC%20has%20classified%20PFOA%20as,cause%20cancer%20in%20lab%20animals.
Podcast - https://www.alleghenyfront.org/category/fullepisodes/
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about asbestos. Deadly little fibers that are in seemingly everything and can lay dormant for decades before wreaking havoc.
Original Air Date: November 27, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos
https://www.asbestos.com/asbestos/
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Bhopal Gas Leak disaster in India. Due to malfunctioning safety systems and a lack of safety culture, many people were poisoned and their lives impacted forever.
Original Air Date: November 13, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about Minamata Disease. How one small Japanese town suffered from decades of mercury poisoning.
Original Air Date: October 30, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata,_Kumamoto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Big_Pollution_Diseases_of_Japan
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
Based on the movie Airplane!, this week’s mini failure is a bonus episode about the harrowing events of Trans American Flight 209. Trans American Flight 209 from Los Angeles to Chicago made a miraculous landing in Chicago after the flight crew was incapacitated by food poisoning and a former Air Force Pilot along with a flight attendent were successful in bringing the aircraft to the ground.
Original Air Date: April 1, 2022
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Love Canal. After a decade of dumping toxic waste, the location was a bad spot to put a school. Even the chemical company knew it, but it would take years for the school board to understand the consequences of their decision.
Original Air Date: October 16, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Exxon Valdez. The second worst oil spill in US waters that took decades to clean up.
Original Air Date: October 2, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the SS Sultana. A steamship that exploded and sank on the Mississippi River in 1865, claiming the title of the worst US maritime disaster.
Original Air Date: September 18, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Gretna Rail Disaster. Too many trains, some of them knowingly unsafe, water cooler chatter about the war, and an unofficial shift change led to the the worst rail disaster in British history.
Original Air Date: September 4, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintinshill_rail_disaster
Animation - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Quintinshill_animation_1.gif
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This week’s Mini Failure is about the Ocean Tower. It was a 31 storey luxury condo tower that was demolished in 2009 after finding significant structural concerns.
Original Air Date: August 21, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Tower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_voluntarily_demolished_buildings
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about Ronan Point. A bad fitting and a lit match led to the collapse of the SE corner of this tower block in east London, UK.
Original Air Date: August 7, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronan_Point
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Johnstown Flood AKA that Great Flood of 1889. After heavy rainfall, the poorly maintained South Fork Dam failed, greatly impacting the unsuspecting residents downstream.
Original Air Date: July 24, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood
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This week’s Mini Failure is about the Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire. A completely preventable fire that took the lives of hundreds and changed the shape of public assembly fire protection and life safety regulations.
Original Air Date: July 10, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoanut_Grove_fire
https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/Public-Education/By-topic/Occupancies/NFPA-Journal-2007_CocoanutGrove-small.pdf
https://bostonfirehistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/51/2016/11/reportconcerningcocoanutgrovefire.pdf
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about Dreamworld’s Thunder River Rapids Ride in Australia. A failing pump caused a fatal accident on what was supposed to be a family friendly ride.
Original Air Date: June 26, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_River_Rapids_Ride
https://www.courts.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/641830/10545784-final-dreamworld-draft-6-for-upload.pdf
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the DOT-105 Rail Car Chlorine Gas Leak. An old rail car and ineffective maintenance procedures led to the release of 81,000kg of chlorine gas along the Ohio River valley.
Original Air Date: June 12, 2022
Episode Sources
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HZM1901.pdf
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Millenium Tower in San Francisco, which has been sinking and leaning since it was completed in 2009.
Original Air Date: May 29, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Tower_(San_Francisco)
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/millennium-tower-now-tilting-3-inches-per-year-according-to-fix-engineer/3101278/?_osource=SocialFlowFB_PHBrand&fbclid=IwAR1lTUiewvQMkchMkfF7G9bIIJOhYj-tLfEfQoX0Ai0ZQTTR_7PpmD_8V5Y
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Minnesota Metrodome. A combination of a pressurized structure and a fabric roof requires a lot of maintenance to keep the roof up there doing roof things. Otherwise it collapses like it did in Minneapolis.
Original Air Date: May 15, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_H._Humphrey_Metrodome
roof collapse video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_uscBJn0p0
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about Apollo 1. What was meant to be a non-hazardous test for the first crewed mission to the Moon, turned out to be a devastating event for NASA and space travel in general. Like all the engineering failures we’ve covered on this show, and as tragic as it was, there is a lot to learn from not only how the fire started, but how it spread and how the rescue was mishandled.
Original Air Date: October 10, 2021
Engineering News
https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/world-first-ocean-drone-captures-video-from-inside-hurricane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Sam
Hurricane Hunters - https://www.hurricanehunters.com/
Apollo 1
https://www2.engineering.com/Library/ArticlesPage/tabid/85/ArticleID/67/categoryId/7/Apollo-1.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Kursk Submarine (4:30); a Russian Submarine that sank during a naval training exercise (13:40). The recovery of the ship was less than optimal (16:30) and there were many things to blame, some real and some conspiracy (23:10).
Original Air Date: August 1, 2021
Engineering News
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210427085752.htm
Kursk
https://engineering-channel.com/kursk-submarine-disaster/
Kursk Layout
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1010943.stm
Kursk After Recovery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_submarine_disaster
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We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Seattle Kingdome. A venue that had design issues from the start; poor design, leaks, and some really bad baseball and basketball teams are the legacy that remains for the Kingdome.
Original Air Date: May 1, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdome
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