NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Manhattan Crane Chaos
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 12/21/2022
A disastrous crane collapse causes chaos on the streets of Manhattan.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Bay Area Bridge of Mayhem
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 1/18/2023
Experts investigate an iconic Bay Area bridge devastated by an earthquake.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - Pacific Coast Bridge Collapse
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 10/18/2023
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
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - Island Observatory Failure
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 10/25/2023
An iconic telescope in Puerto Rico suffers a spectacular collapse.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - Tower Crane Calamity
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 11/1/2023
A crane collapse leaves seven dead on a holiday weekend in Manhattan.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - The Fern Hollow Fiasco
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 11/8/2023
A morning commute becomes dangerous when a bridge collapses in Pittsburgh.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - Nebraska Bomb Cyclone
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 11/15/2023
An aging dam in Nebraska fails after the area is pummeled by a superstorm.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - Art School Inferno
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 11/22/2023
A distinguished library is ravaged by not one but two disastrous fires.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - Gas Leak Catastrophe
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/29/2023
Twenty people are killed after a hotel explodes in America's heartland.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - The Bronx Sinkhole
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/2023
A sinkhole envelops a residential street in the Bronx.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - Shopping Center Tragedy
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/2023
Tragedy strikes in San Juan when an explosion rocks a busy shopping center.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - Chemical Plant Calamity
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 12/20/2023
An explosion at a chemical plant in New Jersey kills five workers.
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6.2/107 votesLoading...#13 - Explosions from Hell
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/20/2019
When demolitions don't go as planned, engineers race for cutting-edge solutions to bring down buildings that refuse to fall. At the world-renowned Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan, experts try to succeed when the world's most powerful explosives fail.
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6.4/109 votesLoading...#14 - Curse of the Devil's Dam
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/2019
When a dam breaks during routine maintenance, engineers fear a catastrophic flood; experts use the latest science to investigate what went wrong and how a simple miscalculation could be to blame.
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6.4/106 votesLoading...#15 - Arizona Railroad Inferno
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 12/1/2021
A railroad inferno takes down a historic river crossing in Arizona.
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6.5/108 votesLoading...#16 - Nightmare in Florida
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/2019
When a brand-new bridge suddenly collapses in Miami, several die in a horrifying calamity; experts use the latest science to investigate what went wrong and how an innovative bridge-building technique could be to blame.
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6.5/1010 votesLoading...#17 - Terror in Texas
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 7/7/2021
Experts uncover what triggered a fatal malfunction at a Texas oil refinery.
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6.6/1017 votesLoading...#18 - Stadium Disaster
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/2018
A stadium on the brink of collapse, an upside-down bridge, and a massive subway project in crisis are engineering catastrophes in need of repair, and experts use cutting-edge technology to reveal if they can be fixed.
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6.6/109 votesLoading...#19 - Leaning Towers of Terror
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/19/2018
A city with hundreds of leaning buildings, the world's scariest airport and the world's biggest sewage pipe harbor engineering disasters in need of repair; experts use cutting-edge technology to reveal if they can be fixed.
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6.6/109 votesLoading...#20 - Curse of the Swamp Monster
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/2019
When an oil rig in Louisiana drills into something unexpected, a cataclysmic event is unleashed, causing a lake to suddenly disappear; experts use the latest science to investigate what went wrong and how it can be fixed.
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6.6/108 votesLoading...#21 - Crash of the Titan
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2019
As one of the largest construction cranes in the world lifts a one-million-ton section of roof for Milwaukee's Miller Park stadium, it suddenly collapses; experts use the latest science to investigate what went wrong.
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6.6/109 votesLoading...#22 - Olympic Stadium Fiasco
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/2019
Montreal's Olympic Stadium was an ambitious engineering project with a striking Space Age design, but it's distinctive roof has caused over one billion dollars in cost overruns; experts reveal what went wrong and how cutting-edge science can fix it.
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6.6/106 votesLoading...#23 - Cincinnati Demolition Disaster
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 12/8/2021
A routine bridge demolition in Cincinnati goes disastrously wrong.
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6.6/106 votesLoading...#24 - Memphis Bridge of Doom
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 12/7/2022
Experts investigate a vital bridge in danger of collapse in Memphis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id5E8eZg7nI
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6.6/106 votesLoading...#25 - Texas Oil Port Inferno
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 12/14/2022
Experts investigate a deadly oil port explosion in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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"Manhattan Crane Chaos" is the worst rated episode of "Engineering Catastrophes". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/21/2022. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Bay Area Bridge of Mayhem".