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The frowns and furrowed brows are understandable because Bhopal is never far away. About five people continue to die each week from aftereffects of the accident. The company announced last month that it had taken a $17.8 million write-down on its fourth-quarter earnings in order to cover costs...
Union Carbide's in-house investigation of the accident will probably not be completed before the end of February. But an inquiry under way in India is already reaching some initial conclusions. The investigation has identified a combination of design flaws, operating errors and managerial mistakes that helped cause the...
The result of seven weeks' work by a team of Indian government officials, the report on the Bhopal accident will not be published until the opening of a judicial inquiry in India that is scheduled to begin in a month or so. But sources close to the investigation have disclosed...
Plant safety procedures were inadequate to deal with a large-scale leak of the deadly methyl isocyanate, or MIC, despite the fact that the dangers such a leak would pose were known. Nor had any precautions been taken to protect people living near the plant site. Although a safety survey...
Some important safety systems were not working at the time of the accident. Refrigeration units designed to keep the highly reactive MIC cool so that it could not vaporize had been shut down before the accident. Other equipment, including devices designed to vent and burn off excess gases, was so...