Carsington Dam is a 35-meter-high zoned earth embankment in Great Britain that experienced a major slope failure during construction. Inadequate soil testing, poor design, construction methods, and pressure from non-safety goals are among the many factors that contributed to its failure. While no fatalities occurred during the incident, four workers tragically died of asphyxiation in an unrelated incident at the dam in 1983 while inspecting a drainage chamber during construction.
