The following list of case studies is categorised into the domains to which they relate.

• Transportation accidents (not including the traffic control incidents below) include those from space (the Apollo 13 explosion, Ariane 5 launch failure, Aurora 7 splashdown, Challenger launch explosion, and Mars Climate Orbiter loss), rail (crashes at Granville, Moorgate and Gare de Lyon, the fire in the Channel Tunnel, and the Armi Tunnel stall), aviation (crashes on takeoff from Chicago and into Mt Osutaka, the controlled descent into terrain (the Florida Everglades) by a Valujet and a Lockheed Tristar, overrunning the runway at Warsaw, and suffering a stray golf ball at Livermore), maritime (the Westralia fire) and automotive (the Ford Pinto fires) industries.
• Traffic control failures led to train collisions at Clapham Junction, Norwich Yarmouth and Staplehurst, and (at a slightly higher level of traffic control) the London Ambulance dispatch failure.
• Process industry mishaps include the release of methyl isocyanate in Bhopal, the cyclohexane explosion in Flixborough, the explosion in the sewers in Guadalajara, the gas plant explosion in Longford, the LPG terminal explosion in Mexico City, the Phillips 66 ployethylene explosion in Pasadena, and the Piper Alpha oil platform inferno.
• The defence industry was involved in the Patriot Missile mistiming and the Westralia fire.
• Medical treatment was incorrectly applied in the Therac-25 mistreatment, and was unable to be given in a timely fashion in the London Ambulance dispatch failure.
• Power generation, and more specifically the nuclear industry, was involved in the Three Mile Island release, and power distribution in the musical blackout.
• The Canberra Hospital demolition and the Robert Sergi Bridge collapse are examples of mishaps in the building industry.
• The mining industry was involved in the Kianga No. 1, Moura No. 2 and Moura No. 4 mine explosions.