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...recent tragedy. Company officials insisted that nine of the deficiencies had been corrected by last June. A safety valve on a methyl isocyanate storage tank was still malfunctioning, they conceded, but it was nowhere near the tank that caused the disastrous leak. The firm did acknowledge that no U.S. supervisor had visited the Bhopal plant since the 1982 inspection, and no major audit of the facility had been undertaken in more than two years...
...noticed that the temperature in the tanks was well above 100° F and rising steadily. As a result, pressure in the tanks was mounting. The worker tried to manually operate the mechanisms that were supposed to relieve the pressure, but it had already gone too high. He alerted his supervisor, and four colleagues donned gas masks and hurried to the scene. They too were unable to seal the tank; by then, all systems had failed...
Meanwhile, panic broke out among the 120 workers still in the plant. One employee said he sounded a siren to warn the surrounding community, but few of the surviving residents recall hearing it. Many of the workers reportedly began running for their lives, leaving just one supervisor in the factory to do battle with the fumes. The man, identified later as Shakeel Ahmed, collapsed from the effects of the gas before he could control it. (At week's end his condition was critical.) Nearly an hour after the gas began escaping into the air, the tank was sealed by engineers...
...most frequent cause of accidents is human error. Companies and manufacturing groups have a continual program of training films, manuals and classroom instruction to educate workers on safety procedures and what to do in case of accidents. Allied says that as much as one-quarter of a manufacturing supervisor's time is devoted to health, safety and environmental training...
These are the same pranksters who four years ago made a rowdy success of the lovable Gilbert and Sullivan warhorse The Pirates of Penzance. Then as now, Papp was the producer, Wilford Leach the director, William Elliott the music supervisor and conductor, and Pop Singer Linda Ronstadt was boss soprano in charge of provoking doleful predictions that she could not possibly handle an operatic lead...