Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Again and again, Prime Minister Gandhi and his ministers reiterated last week their determination to impose, and enforce, new and stricter industrial safety regulations. "We are concerned not only about this plant but about similar places as well," said Gandhi at Bhopal. "I believe there must be an overall government policy change...
...company's manager for new pesticides. It is one of a group of chemicals called isocyanates that are used to make polyurethane, which, in turn, is used to make paint and varnish. The MIC compound also has been made in the U.S. at Union Carbide's plant in Institute, W. Va., as well as by other companies in West Germany, Japan and South Korea...
Seveso, Italy, July 10,1976. Between 1 Ib. and 22 Ibs. of poisonous dioxin were released into the atmosphere over an area of 4,500 acres when a chemical reaction at the Hoffman-La Roche plant set off an explosion. More than 1,000 residents were forced to flee, and many children developed a disfiguring rash called chloracne, but no lives were lost...
Flixborough on Humberside, England, June 1, 1974. Britain's biggest peacetime explosion occurred at the Nypro (U.K.) Ltd. chemical plant when a pipe ruptured. The plant produced Caprolactum, which is woven into nylon. The blast killed 28 workers and leveled every building on the 60-acre site...
Ludwigshafen, Germany, July 28,1948. A railway car transporting dimethylether, used in making acetic acid and dimethylsulfate, to the I.G. Farben chemical plant, exploded inside the factory gates. The blast and resulting fire killed 207 people and injured...