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Bhopal Gas Tragedy, India Case Study

A case study analyzing the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, its causes, consequences, and lessons in environmental safety.

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    BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY , INDIA CASE STUDY The incident investigation should deal with the chemical accident presented below. The case study should include the following components:  A brief introduction of the scene and the accident  Safety and health impacts of the accident  A statement on the legal aspects of the incident  Analysis of the key points from a project management perspective about the incident and accident  Summary of the article’s conclusions and your own opinions Conduct a Case Study on this disaster identifying safety management, safety audits, accident investigation, and industrial hygiene issues. Your Case Study should be a minimum of 500 – 600 words and contain the components listed above. Below I have attached all of the references that can be utilized to conduct this case study. No other reference material can be used. An APA formatted reference sheet has also been attached. The Bhopal Incident: On 2 December1984, a pesticide factory owned by an American multinational - the Union Carbide Corporation leaked a large amount of poisonous gas into the air surrounding a small and impoverished town called Bhopal, India. The immediate death toll has been estimated to be around 7,000 people, and the death toll from long - term health problems now stands at 25,000 – and a further 25,000 people in the slums around the factory continue to be poisoned by the chemicals that have been left behind. 25 years have passed from the time those hours of darkness of fright and fatality in Bhopal, which saw a shade of poisonous gases blow up out of a defective reservoir in an insect killer plant and without a sound reach into the homes of inactive citizens. Even though no administrative add up of losses has still not been completed, estimates based on hospital and treatment proceedings demonstrate so as to about 20,000 citizens died and as regards 5.7 lakh suffered physical injury and harms, this is by far the world's most horrible industrialized tragedy always. People who in took the extremely poisonous and deadly concoction in those hours of darkness had suffered a horrifying demise with numerous organ breakdown . Those who are still surviving have been suffering numerous diseases for 25 years. In the early morning of 3 rd December 1984 a tank which contained 43 tones of MIC . The MIC overheated and due to this the MIC gas mixtures were released which took no time to spread all

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