About Overload Files

Overload Files is a catalog of structures that came down because they were asked to carry more than their load path could bear — under-design, a crowd, an illegal addition, a gas blast — each autopsied from the drawing-board decision to the collapse.

What you'll find here

• The structure, the death toll, and the date of failure — stated up front, never buried
• A documented timeline, a three-act account, and exactly five contributing factors
• The load path and the mechanism: the named design or decision error that caused the failure
• Transferable lessons, and real references from the investigating body and named press

Overload Files is part of Failure Forensics — a reference network that autopsies catastrophic engineering failures by the physics that destroyed them: overload, fracture, fire, and the ground.

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