5. Oppau Explosion
One of the worst accidents on our list of 10 worst industrial disasters/accidents in the world occurred on September 21, 1921, in Germany in a place formerly known as Oppau (now Ludwigshafen). A tower silo with 4,500 tons of ammonium fertilizer exploded at the BASF plant in Oppau destroying almost 80% of all buildings in this place and killing about 600 people. A much greater number of people were injured, around 2,000 of them while 6,500 people were left homeless.
