Causality

The Engineered Network

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.

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S1 · E64
May 30 · 34 min
64: Verrückt Waterslide
Spurred on to build the tallest and fastest Waterslide in the world by a Travel Channel show about Waterparks, the owners of the Kansas City Schlitterbahn Waterpark designed and built the Verrückt Waterslide in record time. A net enclosed the ride …
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S1 · E63
March 7 · 31 min
63: Wittenoom
With demand for Asbestos in building products in the 1940s, a discovery in Western Australia's remote Pilbara region of Blue Asbestos led to the creation of a mining town called Wittenoom. Despite the growing list of illnesses and deaths of workers …
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S1 · E62
February 2 · 39 min
62: OceanGate Titan
A young company pushing to re-invent deep sea exploration with an initial focus on opening up tourism to the wreck of the Titanic, OceanGate garnered the fascination of many around the world. With a different approach to their hull design they forged …
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S1 · E61
Nov 29, 2025 · 38 min
61: West Gate Bridge
Planned for nearly a century, when the time came to build a permanent link across the Lower Yarra River, a relatively new style of bridge, the box-girder, was chosen. Using new computer technology assisting the engineers to design a bridge that was …
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S1 · E60
Aug 26, 2025 · 24 min
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 of the Engine Room leading to a total loss of Mains …
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S1 · E59
Apr 30, 2025 · 50 min
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 incomplete and the newly replaced Residue Treater hadn't …
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S1 · E58
Mar 31, 2025 · 30 min
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 explosion that levelled the facility and its …
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S1 · E57
Jan 7, 2025 · 27 min
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 building material choices cost 48 young people their …
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S1 · E56
Dec 17, 2024 · 40 min
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 look at how poor Management of Change, high alarm …
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S1 · E55
Oct 19, 2024 · 29 min
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 exactly what caused it and how complacency and a lack …
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S1 · E54
Jun 25, 2024 · 28 min
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 explosion, killing someone else. We examine how …
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S1 · E53
Mar 30, 2024 · 50 min
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 repair. We look at how design errors and ultimately a …
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S1 · E52
Dec 9, 2023 · 26 min
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 state of emergency being declared. We look at how …
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S1 · E51
Aug 27, 2023 · 36 min
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 poor design checking and assumptions led to the …
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S1 · E50
Apr 22, 2023 · 52 min
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. We dig into the detail of how the AOA Sensor was …
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S1 · E49
Jan 18, 2023 · 29 min
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 explosion. Onlookers were shocked when there was a …
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S1 · E48
Nov 18, 2022 · 33 min
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 history. We look into how bureaucracy and …
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S1 · E47
Jul 15, 2022 · 41 min
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, the investigators found multiple fundamental design …
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S1 · E46
May 16, 2022 · 29 min
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 inspection that the ride was safe to operate. We look at how …
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S1 · E45
Apr 2, 2022 · 25 min
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 Australia's worst ever rail disaster that was predicted …
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