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This is a list of engineering blunders, i.e., gross errors or mistakes resulting from grave lack of proper consideration, such as stupidity, confusion, carelessness, or culpable ignorance, which resulted in notable incidents. Deepwater Horizon oil spill caused by a faulty blowout preventer.
Pages in category "Engineering companies of the United States" The following 157 pages are in this category, out of 157 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Engineering failures" The following 85 pages are in this category, out of 85 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Engineering disasters;
The investigation team found that tank was maintained by unskilled workers instead of skilled engineers which resulted in leakage. [95] September 10, 2016: Gazipur, Bangladesh. A boiler explosion in a packaging industry in the town of Tongi, Gazipur, led to the death of 23 workers. The explosion was so powerful that it made part of the four ...
Commodities trader Tino De Angelis defrauded clients, including the Bank of America into thinking he was trading vegetable oil. He got loans and made money using the oil as collateral. He showed inspectors tankers of water, with a bit of oil on the surface. When the fraud was exposed, the business collapsed. Herstatt Bank: West Germany: 26 June ...
Because of their success, these company names are very familiar to us, but most of them have hidden meanings behind their peculiar names. LEGO, for example, is the How 17 famous companies got ...
Michael DeKort was an American systems engineer and project manager at Lockheed Martin who posted a whistleblowing video on YouTube.com about the Lockheed Integrated Deepwater System Program. [151] In 2008, DeKort was awarded the Society on Social Implications of Technology's public service award. [152]
In April 2007, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) began referring to the flooding as the worst engineering catastrophe in US history. [15] On 1 June 2007, the American Society of Civil Engineers issued its External Peer Review (ERP) report, [16] the peer review of the Corps-sponsored IPET and also an accompanying press release. [17]