Causality
Chain of Events. Cause and Effect. We analyse what went right and what went wrong as we discover that many outcomes can be predicted, planned for and even prevented.
- Update frequency
- every 60 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 61
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
60: Carnival Triumph
A leaking flexible pipe started a fire in the Engine Room aboard the Carnival Triumph during its return journey from Mexico in early 2013. The fire caused minor damage in one, very important section …
00:24:44 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
59: Bayer CropScience
After an extended outage of the Methomyl Unit at the Bayer facility in Institute, West Virginia, the decision was made to commence a restart of the Unit even though the DCS upgrade was still incomple…
00:50:22 |
Wed 30 Apr 2025
58: West Fertilizer Company
In the early hours of the evening on the 17th of April, 2013 in the small city of West, Texas...smoke was seen emanating from the West Fertilizer Company building. In 20 minutes there was a massive e…
00:30:43 |
Mon 31 Mar 2025
57: Stardust Nightclub
On Valentines Day in 1981 in the North of Dublin, Ireland a fire broke out in a nightclub just following a Disco Dancing competition. We look at how measures taken to prevent illegal entry and poor b…
00:27:40 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
56: BP Husky Toledo
On the 20th of September, 2022 at the BP Husky Toledo refinery in Ohio, a level transmitter change out from a month prior triggered a chain of events that would cost two operators their lives. We loo…
00:40:08 |
Tue 17 Dec 2024
55: CrowdStrike
On Friday the 19th of July, 2024 millions of CrowdStrike Falcon Agents the world over would lead to a Windows system crash on business machines throwing parts of the world into chaos. We look into ex…
00:29:04 |
Sat 19 Oct 2024
54: Midland Resource Recovery
In 2017 during an Odoriser decontamination procedure in West Virginia, two people were killed when it unexpectedly exploded. Barely a month later, a similar procedure at the same site led to a second…
00:28:01 |
Tue 25 Jun 2024
53: Callide C Blackout
In 2021 the Callide C Power Station experienced a unit failure that tore the turbine-generator apart, resulted in hundreds of thousands of premises losing power, and cost hundreds of millions to repa…
00:50:52 |
Sat 30 Mar 2024
52: Colonial Pipeline
In 2021 many of Colonial Pipelines IT systems were locked by malware and out of caution they shutdown the fuel pipelines feeding nearly half of the Eastern US leading to chaos at the gas pump and a s…
00:26:12 |
Sat 09 Dec 2023
51: I35 West
The I35W bridge over the Mississippi River carried 140,000 cars every day. Inspections in 1999 and 2003 showed damage to support plates that was dismissed as unimportant at the time. We look into how…
00:36:00 |
Sun 27 Aug 2023
50: 737 MAX Ethiopian Air
Five months after Lion Air 610 crashed, another 737-MAX went down with a similar cause. However the official report was at odds with two other internationally respected investigative organisations. W…
00:52:07 |
Sat 22 Apr 2023
49: Carmel Fireworks Explosion
A fireworks company in Western Australia that had been in business for nearly a century, were preparing for a fireworks display in their packing shed when one ignited and set off a fire and an explos…
00:29:04 |
Wed 18 Jan 2023
48: Instituto Goiano de Radioterapia
When a radiation therapy machine was left behind during a move between buildings in central Brazil, it set in motion a series of events that would lead to one of the worst radiological incidents in h…
00:33:09 |
Fri 18 Nov 2022
47: Hyatt Regency Kansas City
The tallest building in Missouri with a large atrium perfect for big bands and dancing, hosted a regular Tea Dance in the summer of 1981. When two walkways collapsed killing over a hundred people, th…
00:41:31 |
Fri 15 Jul 2022
46: Mindbender
The longest, tallest, fastest indoor rollercoaster in the world was only open six months when the last carriage of a train came loose, killing three people and all that the day following an inspectio…
00:29:29 |
Mon 16 May 2022
45: Granville
In 1977, a commuter train from the Blue Mountains, destined for Sydney central station would derail just before Granville Station, causing a bridge to collapse and crush many aboard. It remains Austr…
00:25:53 |
Sat 02 Apr 2022
44: Beirut Warehouse 12
In Beirut in August of 2020, an explosion at the Port of Beirut destroyed a huge part of the city. We look into how an oxidising agent, improperly handled can become an explosive and attempt to compr…
00:31:55 |
Thu 10 Feb 2022
43: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
In 1911 in Manhattan, New York, a clothing factory went up in flames just before closing time. We look at how faulty equipment, poor design and a fear of theft contributed to a wholly preventable inc…
00:27:21 |
Tue 09 Nov 2021
42: Royal Canberra Hospital
The original Royal Canberra Hospital was flagged to be demolished in 1997 to make way for the new National Museum. A demolition via implosion was selected, but the implosion resulted in an explosion …
00:45:14 |
Thu 16 Sep 2021
41: Florida International University
The university wanted a bridge for its students over a busy roadway that would appear intriguing from afar. Instead it collapsed before it was even finished. We look into how design errors, poor peer…
00:43:10 |
Thu 08 Jul 2021
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