The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Jan 2, 2025 · Thousands of people died in the central city of Bhopal in December 1984 after breathing a poisonous gas leaked from the factory. On Wednesday, around 337 tonnes of toxic waste was taken from...

Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) was a diversified manufacturing company incorporated in 1934. Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) became one of the first U.S. companies to invest in India when UCC acquired shares in UCIL in 1934.

Dec 2, 2014 · On the night of December 2, 1984, the factory, owned by the U.S. multinational Union Carbide Corporation, accidentally leaked methyl isocyanate and other highly toxic gases into the air,...

In 1969, through its subsidiary UCIL, UCC leased land from the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and got to work creating a new factory in the city of Bhopal. Union Carbide’s 1950s advertising campaign provides a disquieting comparison with what their hands really accomplished in India.

Union Carbide India Limited's (UCIL) Bhopal plant was a vast chemical complex containing miles of complicated piping and hundreds of specialized reactors, pressure vessels, heat exchangers and other equipment and employed more than 1,000 workers.

a number of accidents in the Bhopal plant • complaints are forwarded to State and national government & US executives. • union leaders are fired and the campaign is broken up • journalist Rajkumar Keswani writes four articles between 1983 & 1984 warning of imminent disaster

Jan 2, 2025 · Four decades after the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, some 377 tonnes of hazardous waste were loaded on sealed containers and shifted from the defunct Union Carbide factory for disposal. Know where it has been taken and what will happen next.

The highly toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide factory on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984, killing at least 5,479 persons and leaving thousands with...

In setting up the MIC plant in Bhopal, Union Carbide had made a financial mistake. The demand for pesticides was far less than UCC had imagined it would be. By 1983 the Bhopal factory was in a desperate state, losing money hand over fist.