Case Study Union Carbide

No plan existed for coping with a disaster of this magnitude . Lifeless bodies lay in the streets, beds remain occupied with people who will never breathe again, hospitals begin to overflow to people experiencing blinding, vomiting, and dysesthesia of the lungs . From the streets you could hear the screams of pain in the crisp, melancholy, toxic air . When day breaks there will be silence . What is done is done . On the fateful night of December 2, MIC gas began escaping from Tank 610 around 10:30 p.m . Gas was released when water interpolated into one of the storage tanks late that night . The water could not have got into the tank on its own . Union Carbide Corporation investigators have found new evidence pointing towards a theory that the tank was purposely sabotaged by a employee . Witnesses in the plant that night claim that an employee working that night was inraged due to a recent change making him become moved to a different part of the plant . The water that percolationed into the tank containing methyl isocyanate was located 250 feet away where equipment was being cleaned . The water could not have seeped into the tank from that distance .
Documents and logs since then have been altered and missing in the plant files . The company claims that the case that’s pleaded is bogaus , they are trying to suppress the accident happened because of there employee. The main warning siren did not go off initially . Instead it went off a grueling two hours later . Finally the Indian Government accepted moral responsibility . They paid $470 million dollars in compensation , a measly fee for the damage . The warning came too late for 15,000 men, women, and children