This article contains a list of steam boiler explosions.
Events[]
| Event | Date | Nation | City/Locale | Killed | Injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brunton's Mechanical Traveller | July 31, 1815 | United Kingdom | Philadelphia, Tyne and Wear | 16 | - |
| Stockton and Darlington Railway No. 2 or No. 5 | March 19, 1828 | United Kingdom | Simpasture, near Shildon | 1 | 1 |
| Stockton and Darlington Railway No. 1 Locomotion | July 1, 1828 | United Kingdom | Aycliffe Lane | 1 | - |
| Best Friend of Charleston | June 17, 1831 | United States | Charleston, South Carolina | 1 | 3 |
| Locomotive under test | November 1834 | United States | Baltimore, on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | 1 | - |
| Liverpool and Manchester Railway No. 33 Patentee | November 12, 1834 | United Kingdom | Whiston Bank | - | - |
| Harlem Railroad | July 4, 1839 | United States | 14th Street, New York City | 2 | 5 |
| Surprise | November 10, 1840 | United Kingdom | Bromsgrove | 2 | ? |
| Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Richmond | September 2, 1844 | United States | Reading, Pennsylvania | 4 | - |
| London and North Western Railway 122 Goliah | 1847 | United Kingdom | - | - | |
| Great Western Railway Goliah | June 29, 1849 | United Kingdom | Plympton, foot of Hemerdon Bank | 1 | - |
| London and North Western Railway 401 | 1850 | United Kingdom | Longsight | - | - |
| Midland Railway 363 (ex Bristol and Gloucester Railway 7 Wickwar) | January 8, 1853 | United Kingdom | Clay Hill, Bristol | - | - |
| Erie Railroad | June 16, 1853 | United States | Susquehanna, Pennsylvania | 5 | - |
| London and North Western Railway 249 | July 4, 1861 | United Kingdom | Rugby, Warwickshire | 1 | - |
| Erie Railroad | October 25, 1862 | United States | Jersey City docks | 5 | - |
| Great Western Railway Perseus | November 1862 | United Kingdom | Westbourne Park shed | - | - |
| Calcutta Explosion | 1863 | India | Kolkata, West Bengal | - | - |
| Midland Railway 356 | May 5, 1864 | United Kingdom | Colne, Lancashire | 1 | 2 |
| Great Northern 138 | May 5, 1864 | United Kingdom | Metropolitan Railway's Bishop's Road station (now Paddington) | - | - |
| ? 108 | 1864 | United Kingdom | Leominster, Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint Railway | - | - |
| New York Central Railroad | June 18, 1864 | United States | Syracuse, New York | 3 | - |
| New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad 4-4-0 | December 19, 1890 | United States | Wallingford, Connecticut | - | - |
| Railway Explosion | 1890 | Australia | New South Wales | - | - |
| Queensland Railways | June 18, 1892 | Australia | Queensland | - | - |
| North East Dundas Tramway | April 14, 1893 | Australia | Tasmania | - | - |
| Hoosac Tunnel & Western #10 | 1898 | United States | Maine, United States | 2 | 1-2 |
| Statens järnvägar Class Ä No. 510 "Jemtland" | July 26, 1898 | Sweden | Kävlinge | - | - |
| Zeehan | May 1, 1899 | Australia | Tasmania | - | - |
| Great Eastern Railway No. 522 | September 25, 1900 | United Kingdom | Westerfield, Suffolk | 2 | 2 |
| Central of Georgia Railway | October 12, 1907 | United States | Reynolds, Georgia | 2 | 2 |
| Rhymney Railway 97 | 1909 | United Kingdom | Rhymney Railway's Cardiff shed | 3 | 3 |
| Southern Pacific Roundhouse | March 18, 1912 | United States | San Antonio, Texas | 26 | - |
| Rumney Shed | April 21, 1912 | United Kingdom | Cardiff, Wales | - | - |
| Texas & New Orleans 4-4-2 | 1913 | United States | Houston, Texas | - | - |
| Southern Pacific 4037 | February 14, 1914 | United States | SP's San Joaquin Division | - | - |
| Maine Central Railroad | 1915 | United States | Ayers Junction | - | - |
| Milwaukee Road | 1916 | United States | Mitchell, South Dakota | - | - |
| Medina-Salamanca Railway No.2 | January 10, 1918 | Spain | Medina del Campo, VA | 15 | 15 |
| Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific 1965 | December 11, 1919 | United States | Kansas | - | - |
| Missouri, Kansas, & Texas 2-6-0 | 1921 | United States | Cumby, Texas | - | - |
| Santa Fe 2-8-2 | 1921 | United States | Standish, Mo | - | - |
| London and North Western Railway 132 | November 11, 1921 | United Kingdom | Buxton, Derbyshire | 2 | 1 |
| New York Central 3361 | July 1928 | United States | Bergen, New York | - | - |
| Southern Pacific 4017 | September 12, 1929 | United States | - | - | - |
| LMS 6399 Fury | February 10, 1930 | United Kingdom | - | 1 | - |
| Lackawanna Railroad 1172 | July 1930 | United States | Lehigh, Pennsylvania | - | - |
| Reading Company 1705 | Fall 1930 | United States | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | - | - |
| Southern Pacific 4402 | December 25, 1931 | United States | near Richvale, California | - | - |
| Elkhorn Piney Coal Company | January 27, 1934 | United States | Powellton, West Virginia | 16 | - |
| Chicago & Eastern Illinois Mikado | August 15, 1936 | United States | Pimento, Indiana | - | - |
| Deutsche Reichsbahn 02 101 | April 3, 1939 | Germany | - | - | - |
| Virginian Railway #800 | April 1, 1941 | United States | Roanoke, Virginia | ? | ? |
| Southern Pacific 4199 | May 3, 1941 | United States | Cooper, California | 4 | - |
| Canadian National 242 | August 9, 1941 | Canada | Montreal, Quebec | 1 | 1 |
| Norfolk & Western A 1204 | July 7, 1942 | United States | Nolan, West Virginia | - | - |
| Pennsylvania Railroad 520 | November 14, 1942 | United States | Cresson, Pennsylvania | 2 | 4 |
| New York Central Railroad J-3a No. 5450 while hauling the 20th Century Limited | September 7, 1943 | United States | Canastota, New York | 3 | - |
| USATC S160 Class | 1943, 1944 | United Kingdom | - | - | - |
| Louisville & Nashville Railroad 2-8-2(?) | January 3, 1944 | United States | - | - | - |
| St. Louis Southwestern Railroad (Cotton Belt) | 1945 | United States | Paragould, Arkansas | - | - |
| Great Northern 2581 | January 9, 1947 | United States | Crary, North Dakota | ? | ? |
| RL Smith Lumber Company 91 | February 14, 1948 | United States | Canby, California | 2 | 2 |
| Clinchfield Railroad #740 | April 21, 1948 | United States | Erwin, Tennessee | ? | ? |
| Chesapeake and Ohio Railway T-1 #3020 | May 12, 1948 | United States | Near Chillicothe, Ohio | 3 | 0 |
| Union Pacific 9018 | October 20, 1948 | United States | 1.97 miles east of Upland, Kansas | 3 | - |
| Deutsche Reichsbahn 95 6679 | May 4, 1951 | Germany | Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works | 11 | - |
| Denver & Rio Grande Western #3703 | October 19, 1952 | United States | Louviers, Colorado | 3 | - |
| Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 1642 | June 9, 1953 | United States | Hinton, West Virginia | 3 | - |
| Norfolk & Western Y6 2153 | December 15, 1955 | United States | Wytheville, Virginia | - | - |
| British Railways | January 24, 1962 | United Kingdom | Bletchley, Buckinghamshire | 0 | 2 |
| Deutsche Reichsbahn 01 1516 | November 27, 1977 | Germany | Bitterfeld railway station | 9 | 45 |
| Gettysburg Railroad 1278 | June 16, 1995 | United States | Gardners, Pennsylvania | - | 2 |