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Professional engineering has plenty of recent disasters to point to, whether failures in design, construction, operation, or security:

The Waco fertilizer plant explosion (2013), cause determined to be arson (2016)

San Francisco Bay Bridge seismic bolt failures (2013), caused during construction: https://www.nace.org/CORROSION-FAILURES-San-Francisco-Bay-Br...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (2011), design/regulatory failure

And so forth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Industrial_disasters_...

And so on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Engineering_failures