The very first (more deaths than all the rest combined) one in the list (Bhopal disaster[1])...

"Government-controlled banks and the Indian public holding a 49.1 percent stake."

The government and public quite literally owned half of Union Carbide company at the time of the disaster. Fault can't really get more directly placed than that.

The hopes of private industry are that an entirely private corporation, in order to protect its brand's value, needs to avoid this sort of thing. Add government funding to the mix, and everything is up in the air. Lockheed's F-35 project is another example of a disaster, but of the financial sort instead. If funded by another private company, rather than the government, this project would have been shut down and Lockheed would have already been sued into bankruptcy. Instead, Lockheed continues to be paid billions, while their treasonous corporation holds our national security hostage.

Note: All content in this comment is my opinion only.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

> The hopes of private industry are that an entirely private corporation, in order to protect its brand's value, needs to avoid this sort of thing.

It's 2015, no-one believes this anymore.

Now let's talk about asbetos and tobacco if you please.

c'mon... your glasses are so rosy it's not even funny.

I'd argue that most of them are the government's fault, but in favor of more regulation (and bigger teeth), not less.