The turbine collapsed from the center, which is extremely rare for a turbine" ... Actually, pretty much all the non-fire failures you've shown had collapses in the center. Blade imbalance and over-speeding causes twisting forces which can lead to the blade striking the tower. Guess where the tip of the blade usually is? The center of the tower! Since the tower HEAVILY relies on it's perfect cylinder shape for strength, one tip impact can easily bring them down. #1 is an extreme example of that happening, however it can happen at much slower speeds as well.

In early 2000, I took a back route from Brentwood to Livermore on Vasco Road. It was a dark stormy and windy day. As I was climbing up towards the summit, one of the wind turbines on the hillside exploded. It sounded louder than a power pole transformer explosion. I didn't realize how big they were until the shell flew over and across the road a few hundred feet above me. As I can recall, it looked about the size of a commuter bus.

As the narrator solemnly explains, these wind turbines are MASSIVE and the blades are COLOSSAL and when they break the failure is CATASTROPHIC! Fortunately most of them are in the middle of nowhere and except for occasional inspections, there are rarely any people nearby. The danger is clearly overblown.

There were hundreds of wind turbines springing up like mushrooms all over Ireland a few years back. Sometimes the proper surveys of the land were not done properly, and in one case, an entire wind farm slid down a hillside, leaving the towers all leaning at crazy angles.