Top 10 Most Expensive Accidents in History

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These accidents cost a fortune. For this list, we’ll be looking at the costliest accidents throughout history and their approximate costs in US dollars. Our countdown of expensive accidents includes Tanker Truck Explodes on Wiehltal Bridge, “Exxon Valdez” Oil Spill, Space Shuttle “Columbia” Explosion, and more! What is the most massive accident you remember? Be sure to share with us in the comments below.
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@WatchMojo Жыл бұрын

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@KG-Lime Жыл бұрын

Even though the direct cause was Tsunami from massive earthquake, Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (2011) was determined that it was due to failed safety measure. I've read that they (Japanese government and TEPCO) have spent about 24-5 trillion yen (170-178 billion US dollars in current rate) so far.

@FoundaPeanut Жыл бұрын

your editing must have been done by a jr highschool student, tell him about "Volume Leveling" This video is aLL oVeR ThE PlACe.

@CYCO1631 11 ай бұрын

I was alive for Chernobyl... but I was only three and don't remember it. That said, probably Deep Water Horizon or the NE Blackout!

@Frazzled_Chameleon Жыл бұрын

I remember the 2003 blackout. I was working as a Veterinary nurse in Ottawa, Canada at an animal hospital. There were surgeries in progress, including an emergency one, and the clinic did not have a generator. I was given a handful of cash by the owner and drove to Canadian Tire to get one. It was sheer madness. Everyone was there to pick up batteries and generators and stuff. People saw me in my scrubs and asked me what was going on. I said the vets were in the middle of an emergency surgery and we desperately needed a generator so they could finish it. People pushed me to the front of the line and I had a generator in my hands in minutes. They said they would bill the clinic later as the blackout had affected their computer systems and they were back to hand-written receipts. Managed to make it back to work without crashing (no traffic lights, and traffic cops hadn’t been deployed yet). What an insane time.

@ARIXANDRE Жыл бұрын

That Beirut explosion impresses me the most because of how mutch footage there is. Can you imagine CCTV images of Chernobyl?

@syreallewyatt5048 Жыл бұрын

Well it wouldnt be that interesting really to watch, b/c theres not really anything to see. Theres footage of them attempting to sand it, and other stuff but like the evacs and all that would be pretty uninteresting at it'd look just like people loading to go on a bus trip or whatever on long holiday

@coolcat8b Жыл бұрын

@@syreallewyatt5048 The reactor's explosion would be something to see.

@cerjmedia Жыл бұрын

I'm relatively young so I wasn't alive for most of these, but man the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was absolutely insane. I lived in Texas at the time and they "shut down" the beaches for months, maybe even longer, I don't remember I moved not too long after. I know obviously many of the other ones on this list are less or more crazy, but that was one I distinctly remember at least parts of that one

@galacticwarlock2271 Жыл бұрын

I remember President Obama going on CNN with Anderson Cooper to lie about the damage done by deep water horizon.

@jasontoddman7265 Жыл бұрын

The Columbia explosion was *17* years after the Challenger explosion; not 26.

@wendyodell356 Жыл бұрын

The Challenger explosion was devastating. It was being watched by most of the nation. Just like other monumental news, such as JFK'S assassination and the twin towers falling/explosion on 9-11. It was horrible and remains etched in people's minds for their eternity 😔

@jasontoddman7265 Жыл бұрын

@@wendyodell356 Yes, I was 29 at the time, and walked home from work to have lunch at home to catch the 12 o'clock News. I tuned in and it was a somber scene as I tuned in a few minutes after the actual explosion and it took a few more minutes before I caught on just what was going on. When I returned to work and told everyone what had happened, no one believed me. Then we had Chernobyl a mere three months later. I guess1986 was a pretty bad year for a lot of people.

@wunderkind-7724 Жыл бұрын

I don't know the cost, but how about the Bhopal disaster? Upwards of 16,000 people died.

@coolcat8b Жыл бұрын

It was a gas leak, so no destruction, only dead people. This video is about the most expensive.

@davida8145 Жыл бұрын

Company only had to pay about 600 million in settlements, so in dollar amounts that was not anywhere near 2 billion.

@wunderkind-7724 Жыл бұрын

@@davida8145 They got off cheap for 16,000 deaths, plus hundreds of thousands of injuries. Unfortunately, life is cheap in India.

@WatchMojo Жыл бұрын

thanks for the mention

@philiprice7875 14 күн бұрын

title says expensive UC paid a few back handers to local big wigs to pay about $20 a head

@tromedlovdrolmai Жыл бұрын

So where does the Evergreen blocking the Suez rank I wonder. While the physical damage wasn't that bad, grinding the entire world's supply chains to a halt and causing multiple international supply shortages, as well as stopping massive amounts of international trade surely cost more than a couple billion dollars?

@rebel2809 Жыл бұрын

thats a good point, the sources i could find on google said it was costing billions *per day*

@chrisgames5201 Жыл бұрын

@@rebel2809 The source I read said 54 billion dollars in just the cargo shipments that were halted

@dreamdragon4913 Жыл бұрын

88°F ~ 31°C, that's some rookie numbers

@DamianStrider Жыл бұрын

I was thinking like: Wow.....88°F and they lost their ACs......and here I live in Germany, where we sometimes have 100°F in the Summer and we don't have AC in every house....how the hell do we survive here?

@jpbernier4196 Жыл бұрын

Honorable mentions: The Lac-Mégantic Rail disaster of 2017, when 73 unattended tanker cars carrying crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade derail in downtown Lac-Mégantic and caught fire, killing 47 people and costing around 2 billion$. The 1979 Mississauga derailment occurred when 106 cars containing chemical products derailed and caught fire, and more than 200,000 people were evacuated.

@CyberUrza Жыл бұрын

Very informative. I remember being in school when we were watching the space shuttle Challenger.

@mdturnerinoz Жыл бұрын

I was among a group of folks who fought The Black Fox reactor construction in Oklahoma after Three Mile Island (early 1980s). The reactor pad had been built but already had cracks in it. What with TMI just occurring, then project was cancelled.

@corymorimacori1059 Жыл бұрын

“There are no accidents.” Master Oogway

@gigagaming9630 Жыл бұрын

“Only expensive accidents”

@lorenbrown7100 Жыл бұрын

@@gigagaming9630I thought you said explosive I was gonna say in the bathroom

@Jos3phIVIasucci Жыл бұрын

Only children we wish we never had😎.

@thesailormercury2 Жыл бұрын

happy little accidents : bob Ross

@stevensuarez4843 Жыл бұрын

Tommy pickles: (sees the messages) hold my diaper.

@jettusrey8170 Жыл бұрын

I remember the tornado valley amount of tornadoes that hit Alabama in 2013. I was lucky enough to have a funnel or a tornado form over my house but slowly travel away from my house, preventing the damage of my house and land. The one unforgettable memory I can’t forget is seeing a bobcat looking for food around a destroyed house while I was volunteering for help during the damage, then the worst throng k saw was a church in my main town of Nashville torn in half. I was at the edge of the town so since the building were destroyed I could see across the town. I 🎉 the church across the town of Nashville ripped in half with the gold metal cross visible. It was the only thing seen by the town.

@thatboykaden8128 Жыл бұрын

Tornadoes that hit Nashville.

@jettusrey8170 Жыл бұрын

@@thatboykaden8128 yeah it was probably Nashville I meant

@Ahooper1013 Жыл бұрын

I can’t get over them saying 88° F was a hot day 😂

@smirg2975 Жыл бұрын

😭😂

@gg454lune Жыл бұрын

It was. I've lived worse (thanks to global warming) and I am in a region where the weather is hot in the summer but 88° F is hot.

@coolenick0 Жыл бұрын

88°F (or 31°C) IS hot for alot of climates, especially to people who aren't used to those temperatures

@mikebrandon3814 Жыл бұрын

Especially in a concrete jungle where the heat is absorbed and radiates it out slowly so it never really cools down at night. Also, the 8nnthe area where this happened it’s usually pretty humid which makes it even hotter.

@discobiscuits2100 Жыл бұрын

Lol you wouldn’t last a day in Texas

@N.Z67 Жыл бұрын

I was a medic during the Beirut explosion. You’ve never seen more broken glass on every single street in the city. Worst day of my life.

@ChaddeusPrime 7 ай бұрын

Good god man that explosion is the craziest thing I've ever Seen I could only imagine

@bronwentillman8385 Жыл бұрын

I was living near Cleveland when the blackout hit. It was 2004, not 2003. A year later, I had my second child.

@ruthharris9664 11 ай бұрын

I lived in Washington State for 7 years....long after the exxon valdez .....until you go and see the sound can you truly understand how devastating that spill must have been

@christopherharvie8716 Жыл бұрын

Considering that the Lebanon explosion is listed @ 3 here I wonder if the people compiling this list looked far enough back. The accident that comes to mind that may have been missed was the Halifax explosion. A quick investigation showed that the cost for clean up and reconstruction totalled 1.1 billion in 1917 that’s tick over 26 billion today.

@mirthenary Жыл бұрын

Or even the 1947 Texas City explosion

@shere-leepage7488 Жыл бұрын

I have long time had a problem with the ranking of things on WatchMojo

@Fawkesyeah Жыл бұрын

Columbia exploded on my birthday. Actually woke me up I remember going outside and seeing the trails of the pieces and wondering what it was. Found out on the news shortly after.

@harrymaxwell5420 Жыл бұрын

Accident implies there’s no one to blame.

@CptColumbo Жыл бұрын

I know you were looking at dollar amounts, but I think the Bhopal disaster was worse than many of these.

@ladykoiwolfe Жыл бұрын

I wasn't able to see Three Mile Island as I was still in my mom's belly. But she was just outside the evacuated zone and that always worried her a bit. They evacuated the neighbors across the street, but her side of the street was supposed to be fine? The first disaster I could think of, that I did see, was the BP spill. I saw the Challenger Explosion. I was in first grade, we watched it on tv.

@Jenny010132 Жыл бұрын

Netflix has an excellent documentary about Three Mile Island!

@sophiawasylinko8448 Жыл бұрын

I still remember the Beirut explosion, watching the social media videos. It was shocking. But that blackout…glad I wasn’t in Ontario anymore.

@LukeKetchum7003 10 ай бұрын

The Beirut blast will always stand out in my mind. Since it was the most recent.

@josjawillems3708 Жыл бұрын

0:52 When I heard this voice, I instinctively went "the missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't"

@zekka8979 Жыл бұрын

messed up at work as a carpenter today, costed bossman $2000 came home watched this and instantly felt better

@pattaccone5347 Жыл бұрын

7:02 I remember that black out well ! Was kind of crazy

@evanblack8642 Жыл бұрын

The Union Carbide explosion in Bhopal?

@robbinruffino1201 Жыл бұрын

What about Bhopal in 1986? The accident left generations of disfigured children and adults

@marcusmusings Жыл бұрын

they're only talking financial costs

@arumforyou Жыл бұрын

@@marcusmusings yup, money is more important than life.

@chrisgames5201 Жыл бұрын

What about the Suez Canal blockage? That was estimated to be $54 billion in just cargo shipments that were halted

@alexhart9267 Жыл бұрын

In total, all that costed the world 980,000,000,000 dollars! That's a lot of money!

@DST.73 Жыл бұрын

It wasn't a solid trillion though.

@alexhart9267 Жыл бұрын

@@DST.73 close enough

@goated3285 Жыл бұрын

🐐

@tanepukenga1421 Жыл бұрын

It's only the US defence budget for 13 months. Makes you wonder how much of the world's problems could be solved if no one felt to need to hold the rest of the world by the throat.

@Mountain_In_The_Skull_Official Жыл бұрын

Wow. Those are crazy.

@nerd26373 Жыл бұрын

Have a good day everyone. God bless you all.

@DaveTexas Жыл бұрын

May Satan bless you as well.

@yadielenielbellecolon982 Жыл бұрын

Thank For The Video 🙊🤯🥰💕😍👍

@jasminejohnston6393 Жыл бұрын

9:45 That poor bride had her wedding day ruined by the explosion, I feel sorry for her. Thankfully, she was brought to safety and she wasn’t hurt

@danielsantiagourtado3430 Жыл бұрын

Love your lists!😊😊

@dancingcarapace 11 ай бұрын

I’d barely call Chernobyl an accident, more like Negligent Homicide. The Soviets knew Graphite would increase reactivity, and be MORE LIKELY to cause meltdowns, but they didn’t care because Graphite was cheaper.

@AndrewCastlemaine Жыл бұрын

This is one of your better videos 👍

@leonigama5597 Жыл бұрын

good job about Most Expensive Accidents in History from Top 10

@roundhouse4201 Жыл бұрын

10:50 not sure if “they blew it” is the right choice of words there 💀

@djaafardjaafar7381 Жыл бұрын

I knew chernobyl will be the first

@Itsyaboi-fn5xy Жыл бұрын

uhhh, i think EVERYBODY knows that, buddy

@mirthenary Жыл бұрын

I remember the first shuttle launch after the Challenger disaster, they brought a tv into the main area of all the classrooms of my elementary school for all us kids to watch, and a bunch of kids started chanting "blow up, blow up, blow up" after the launch. Jesus🙄

@roellek16 Жыл бұрын

When I think of the Deepwater Horizon incident I think of the South Park Episode where they have the President of BP saying "I'm Sorry" in suggestive ways. lmao.

@introvertsrock9843 Жыл бұрын

1988: May 4, PEPCON accidental explosion in Nevada history (200 million today's value) Pepcon moved to another state and the Marshmallow factory was rebuilt but went out of biz shortly after

@alvinbuana4628 Жыл бұрын

Please do too 10 disasters over the world caused by corruption and negligience

@RAnDomMaN0394 Жыл бұрын

We just learned about #5 when discussing about power quality and how this very incident forced the government to change its electrical standard from recommended to mandatory

@matgeezer2094 Жыл бұрын

I always think it's funny to call the Chernobyl accident a safety test - it was close to a test-to-destruction. Let's see what will happen if we turn off all safety and see if it can keep itself cool. Insanity

@polite8317 Жыл бұрын

5:22 "today not only is not no longer the largest but there are more than 50 spills worldwide that have surpassed what happened here" why was that one listed then? or anything below it

@railfanmaximstill7279 Жыл бұрын

1989 Cajon Pass Runaway/San Bernadino Explosion

@atanasynikolic8579 Жыл бұрын

I remember that blackout,very scary

@missjody5803 Жыл бұрын

I remember all of these.

@StanHalen1936 Жыл бұрын

Sometimes i wonder who is more pathetic - the losers that comment "first," the groomer that gives them medals, or the people that make bot accounts.

@Reaperguy67 Жыл бұрын

I think it's people like black hat and tiger and those that comment first .

@StanHalen1936 Жыл бұрын

@@Reaperguy67 it definitely is.

@novadyaomah3168 Жыл бұрын

Spirit of Kansas should be on the list, imagine how water moisture caused the most expensive aviation accident in history

@eco2geek. Жыл бұрын

Exxon Valdez Captain: "I said 'Tanqueray on the rocks', not 'Tanker on the rocks'!!!!!" (There was talk that the captain had been drinking at the time of the disaster.)

@Lcngopher Жыл бұрын

We went camping a day earlier than we planned when the 2003 blackout hit. They had power where we were camping so we went

@briandoss9232 Жыл бұрын

Wow!

@mazokuchan Жыл бұрын

I was wondering if the Halifax explosion during WW1 or the Lac Megantic accident was gonna make it anywhere in this list

@jasontoddman7265 Жыл бұрын

The first at least should have. I am not familiar with the second one; I'll have to Google that one.

@jad43701 Жыл бұрын

The Lac Megantic was a case of poor training, no proper backup and just plain stupidity.

@BJI82a Жыл бұрын

We have had so many oil spills and rig explosions over the years maybe the next one will send some people who want a greener energy system over the edge. Chernobyl is an example of why nuclear reactors need to have safety rules that are known world wide. I wonder what crazy stuff the future holds for us.

@lucaslambert5860 Жыл бұрын

“The most expensive catastrophes in history that led to innocent deaths because people in places of power didn’t give a shit about safety” There, I fixed the title

@danielferrieri7434 Жыл бұрын

Top Ten Biggest Explosions in the 2000s

@sergeel-mir1795 Жыл бұрын

yeah ... Beirut explosion !! still feel it to this day :( glad I survived

@stratman103 Жыл бұрын

Age didn't take Columbia down. Environmental idiocy did. The foam was changed from one that worked and wouldn't flake off to one that was less stable and would.

@dennisjansson6239 Жыл бұрын

Do Top 10 Most Expensive man made disasters in History like 9/11.

@chrisgaines6369 Жыл бұрын

The fact that we are still using fossil fuel shows how evil humanity is. We are so screwed

@Karl666Smith Жыл бұрын

There are no alternatives. Other than nuclear. Wind and solar can't provide a stable generation of power. Natural gas is pretty clean too,

@mws3779 Жыл бұрын

1986 was a pretty crappy year for me. My grandfather died over Christmas vacation our family dog was hit by a car and died and the Challenger disaster happened on my birthday.

@PhoenixMoth 5 ай бұрын

I’m sorry

@CARL_093 Жыл бұрын

Chernobyl incident is the unforgettable my grandpa told me how horrible when a nuke reactor fail or miss managed and 2020 Beirut explosion i had seen in videos its like a hyper sonic missile shot its scary to imagine if your in the area of the blast site

@batgurrl Жыл бұрын

For all the years these lists have been published, Chernobyl is always number one, sadly. HBO did an excellent limited series about it a few years ago

@cheeplethebulldog1420 Жыл бұрын

What about Costa Concordia? Billions lost and many gone.

@rmannayr2129 5 ай бұрын

WELL THAT WAS EXPENSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@sidoti1231 Жыл бұрын

Neither the Challenger nor the Columbia exploded. They both disintegrated.

@AaronShenghao Жыл бұрын

The Columbia disaster is not an explosion and not that similar to Challenger aside from NASA administrators standing in the way of engineers who wanted to do additional inspections. Granted there is not much they could have done aside from making an costy emergency rescue given at the time there was no procedures or materials to patch the insulation.

@mwoodley7038 Жыл бұрын

These are all crazy.

@tazdolla5590 Жыл бұрын

Oil ocean from Sonic2 will always be relevant

@stargrays7237 Жыл бұрын

This should be interesting 🤔

@harrisonchr Жыл бұрын

Im surprised the Fukushima nuclear disaster didn't make the list. Wasn't the cleanup cost of that disaster around $500 billion?

@tigremalabarista3461 Жыл бұрын

I’m guessing it’s because it wasn’t man made of human error, but nature causing it.

@sonbroly2888 Жыл бұрын

The oil rig not that was crazy

@CYCO1631 11 ай бұрын

For the longest time, I thought that 9/11 was the single most world changing event that occurred in my lifetime... But I was in fact 3, in April of 1986.

@xlXOsPrEyXlx Жыл бұрын

Anyone else also disturbed at the fact that in only 3 years inflation has caused $15 billion to already be worth $17.5 billion?

@DoctorEw220 Жыл бұрын

Did you factor in any lawsuits filed as a result of the accident?

@bryanreed3559 Жыл бұрын

This is the first time I’ve ever heard of the 2003 blackout..

@amolpakhare5548 Жыл бұрын

8:12 Kalpana Chawla was one of them.

@justinnmai8903 5 ай бұрын

Seems like they need to greater lengths to prevent oil spills

@aalhard Жыл бұрын

Not an explosion. A disintegration 8:06

@kleine.5438 Жыл бұрын

YIKES

@thenishant8888 Жыл бұрын

When you make any list, please explicitly mention that the list is just about western world and will completely ignore third world countries. Because there can be no reason why Bhopal gas tragedy is not included in the list considering the huge economic loss and loss of human life involved.

@johnashleyhalls Жыл бұрын

Ah Three Mile Island, when US media learned to love hyperbole. The dangers of the radioactive fallout from above ground testing spread more atomic pollution over a wider area than 3.M.Island. Hell you could probably track the Strontium 90 in my 60 year old teeth and get a decent track of weapons tests, and I grew up in Toronto!

@roogroog2512 Жыл бұрын

Mass blackout equals emp foh 😂

@kjah06 Жыл бұрын

I'd have swore Tianjin would have made it onto here.

@lifelores Жыл бұрын

Imagine... that the 10 most expensive accidents in history only compare to "When quality of life valuations are considered, the total value of societal harm from motor vehicle crashes in 2010 was $836 billion" - NHTSA ...on US roads, with additionally 35-40k killed. ...and this happens yearly.

@babecat2000 Жыл бұрын

So what to do to make things better?

@lifelores Жыл бұрын

@@babecat2000 If something can exist for over 5 decades, transport the equivalent of the US population yearly and transport the equivalent of the world's population since it's existence... without a single fatality from an accident... that would be amazing... ...that would also be the Japanese Shinkansen bullet train mass transit system...

@msn64man1 Жыл бұрын

Bp oil spill

@Andy-iz9yx Жыл бұрын

4 days without power: Puerto Rico: hold my beer.

@GamerFunOriginallyAarush Жыл бұрын

Whoops!

@arielleagustin8280 Жыл бұрын

Less accident, more years of cutting corners and poor maintenance.

@aidenfair4319 Ай бұрын

suicidal frog jumped into one of the transformers at a dam and it cut power to my town for a day. Don’t know how much it cost but I’m sure it was a lot

@numinous2506 9 ай бұрын

Accidents are just things rich people call you a conspiracy theorist for questioning.

@neoswagtwigofthetwignation9778 Ай бұрын

Something tells me that a lot of people were fired for these mistakes.

@BlueEyedMatt42 Жыл бұрын

Bob Ross would make these happy.

@ayushsen3605 Жыл бұрын

What about the Fukushima accident?? Japan spends nearly 7 billion yearly for its clearance

@AngryCanine Жыл бұрын

The Beirut explosion brought similarities to the Halifax explosion in 1917 from the size and destruction. From a string of bad decisions, lead to the massive explosion that levelled the city of Halifax, killing many, and wounding many many more, plus the winter storm that struck after which seriously slowed down rescue efforts, where more would die while buried by debris and snow. The cost of that explosion which levelled the city, damaged and destroyed several navy and civilian ships in the harbour, would for sure be an extremely expensive accident when adjusted for inflation today.