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Big Dig ceiling collapse
The Big Dig ceiling collapse occurred in Boston's Interstate 90 connector tunnel on July 10, 2006, when falling concrete panels crushed a car and killed one occupant.
Church Hill Tunnel
Church Hill Tunnel was a 3,927-foot railroad tunnel in Richmond, Virginia, built in the 1870s and abandoned after its deadly 1925 collapse entombed a train.
Eastman tunnel
The Eastman tunnel, or Hennepin Island tunnel, was a tailrace tunnel at St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis whose collapse in 1869 nearly destroyed the falls.
Gotthard Road Tunnel fire and structural damage
The Gotthard Road Tunnel fire was a 2001 HGV collision and fire in Switzerland's transalpine road tunnel that killed 11 people and closed the tunnel for two months.
Helensburgh Glow Worm Tunnel
The Helensburgh Glow Worm Tunnel, officially the Metropolitan Tunnel, is a disused 1888 railway tunnel at Helensburgh, Australia, home to a large glow worm colony.
Kilsby Tunnel
Kilsby Tunnel is a railway tunnel on the London & Birmingham Railway near Kilsby, Northamptonshire, England, engineered by Robert Stephenson and built between 1835 and 1838.
Montague Street Tunnel
The Montague Street Tunnel, also called the Montague Tube, is a pair of subway tubes carrying the R train under the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, opened in 1920.
Nicoll Highway collapse
The Nicoll Highway collapse was a 2004 construction accident in Singapore in which a subway excavation failure brought down part of the highway, killing four workers.
Sasago Tunnel ceiling collapse
The Sasago Tunnel ceiling collapse killed nine people on 2 December 2012, when concrete ceiling panels fell onto the Chūō Expressway tunnel in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.