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    The word Animal (jaanvar) is defined as "the one who lives" in Hindi while in the English language, Animal is defined as a living thing who behaves in a wild, aggressive, or unpleasant way. We live in a world where disasters are quite common throughout societies where innocent people are harmed and often forgotten or viewed as unimportant as an animal in the street. Many people suffer and many even lose their lives. The catastrophic gas leak at an American owned Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India during December of 1984 displayed the law’s tragic incompetence to endure the effects of technological globalization, transnational capitalism, and corruption. Indra Sinha's Animal's People is used as a literary bridge between the media and real…

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    Small Perils Lead to Great Losses Introductions People sometimes ignore things, which they regarded as unimportant. However, these trifles may cause people great losses before they realize it. In this paper, we will mainly talk about three cases, one is Bhopal India Gas Tragedy, one is Asian financial Crisis, and the other is Fed’s stock crash in 1987. These three cases had some similarities, all of which had some potential perils ahead of the disasters. For example, Union Carbide India Limited…

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    Union Carbide celebrated their 50 years jubilee of doing business in India in 1984. Often seeing themselves as heroes of the community, providing jobs and financial growth in rural parts of India, they could never have foreseen the turn of events that would cause the people they employed, and many others around the world, to become so hostile towards them. The world calls it “the worst industrial disaster in history” or “the greatest man-made disaster”, but who was responsible for the unbearable…

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    Union Carbide Case Study

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    The explosion of the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, India on December 2, 1984 will remain one of the worst industrial calamities the world has seen. The official death count at the time of the incident was nearly 3000 deaths, but unofficial estimates hovered between 8000 – 10000 deaths (Bogart, 1989). This multifaceted case presents a unique challenge to critique the ethical dilemma in regards to Union Carbide’s legal strategy in response to the situation. The purpose…

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    Hazardous Chemical: Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) In December of 1984 in Bhopal India there was an extremely large chemical leak (Schlager, 2008). The chemical was called methyl isocyanate (MIC) and was used as an intermediate to create a pesticide, or a substance that is used for killing organisms called Seven. Seven, which kills several different types of bugs and is used specifically in Asia but globally as well, is also an insecticide, or a beneficial chemical that kills insects (Living With…

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    resulted in the closed DEMCO valve becoming open which allowed the flammable gas to escape from one of the reactors during a scheduled maintenance procedure. The escaped gas eventually came in contact with an ignition point that started off a sequence of explosions. The incident had resulted in twenty- three worker mortalities, approximately 130 injuries as well as significant property damage totaling in the hundreds of millions. By identifying the key losses, contacts, substandard acts and…

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    This summary of your project should be easily understood by someone outside your field of study. Please refrain from using jargon or unidentified acronyms. (1500 characters) The worst industrial accident in history happened in 2013 when the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed, killing over 1000 people, the majority of them garment factory workers. The global apparel industry is notorious for its terrible working conditions. Most of the research on the causes of events like Rana Plaza…

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    Union Carbide Disaster

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    On December 3rd 1984, Bhopal experienced one of the worst chemical plant disasters recorded in history. A gas leak from the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) chemical plant of methyl isocyanate (MIC) contaminated the air and caused the almost immediate death of over 8000 people and the injury of over 200 000. One of the main concerns surrounding the disaster was the aftermath. Not only the aftermath of the people of Bhopal, but also the aftermath of the engineers and employees working for Union…

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    HINKLEY, CARLIFORNIA NEWS FORUM 01 August 1993 WATER CONTAMINATION IN HINKLEY I am Erin Brokovich; I am a twice-divorced mother of three young children aged between 9 months to 8 years old. I believe the $28 billion company Pacific Gas and Electric has poisoned the water supply of Hinkley, California with hexavalent chromium. In 18 months, I hope with the help of 634 plaintiffs and Masry law firm to sue PG&E for 333 million dollars for the water contamination in Hinkley. PG&E is a $28…

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    Bhopal Tragedy Case Study

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    Repercussions for engineers working for Union Carbide in Bhopal and consequences for Union Carbide following Bhopal disaster. In 3 December 1984 there was a gas tragedy in Bhopal, the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. People around the city were in chaotic motion all trying to escape the toxic gas cloud that resulted from the gas leakage from the plant owned by the Union Carbide Corporation that its aim was to produce Methyl Isocyanate, toxic constituent of pesticide Sevin. It was…

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