This goes down as one of Israel's worst construction disasters.

The men involved in this latest of a recent string of construction disasters looked more or less unharmed.

The 1907 construction disaster, accompanied by the 1916 accident during a second attempt, heightened a growing preference for suspension bridges.

After World War II, increased road traffic through the city centre in the 1960s led to many construction disasters.

Of the 86 workers on the bridge that day, 75 were killed and the rest were injured, making it the world's worst bridge construction disaster.

Instead, after a series of floods, delays and construction disasters, it ended up opening in August 2011 and costing 60 per cent more than that.

The Olympics have already confounded one set of financial sceptics, who doubted that construction companies would get involved after previous sporting construction disasters such as Wembley.

The collapse, in its toll on obscure lives, as in its suddenness and the scrutiny it drew to the project's owners, paralleled another construction disaster in recent years.

On May 18, 2007, the Waterbury Republican-American reported this area had defective light poles, while Governor M. Jodi Rell released an audit report of the construction disaster.

The SMBB firm in recent years has successfully represented victims of numerous construction disasters, including the collapses of the Tropicana casino garage, Pier 34, and the Kimmel parking garage.

The district, once an area that was blighted by empty storefronts, was further emptied of tenants by a construction disaster that caused the death of a construction worker and the demolition of 33 buildings.

For those who don't remember, Belmont was the school construction disaster in which L.A. Unified put a football coach in charge of building a $160-million high school, which the state ultimately declared unusable for children.

The city’s buildings commissioner was forced out of her job and an extensive review of the city’s cranes was conducted in the aftermath of that accident, one of the worst construction disasters in the city’s recent history.