Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Revisited after Twenty-five Years


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Case Code : BECG115
Case Length : 34 Pages
Period : 1984-2010
Organization : Union Carbide Corporation / Dow Chemicals Company
Pub Date : 2010
Teaching Note : Available
Countries : India
Industry : Chemicals

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Background Note

The history of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) dates back to 1917 when four US companies – Union Carbide Co., Linde Air Products Co., National Carbon Co., Inc., and Prest-O-Lite Co., Inc. producing batteries and arc lamps for street lighting and headlamps for cars were merged to form UCC...

Negligent Management Practices at UCIL

In 1980, trouble started brewing at the Bhopal plant with several incidents of death and injury being reported. For instance, in December 1981, a plant operator was killed due to a phosgene gas leak and two others were injured...

That Fateful Night

At around 9:30 pm on December 2, 1984, a large quantity of water entered storage tank 610 containing more than 40 tons of MIC (Refer to Exhibit I for chronology of events after the disaster). When water mixed with MIC, it triggered an exothermic reaction, producing a lot of heat...

UCC's Take on the Tragedy

While the government, citizens, and industry watchers held UCC responsible for the tragic incident, UCC had a different take. When informed about the incident, Mukund's first reaction was, "The gas leak just can't be from my plant. The plant is shut down. Our technology just can't go wrong, we just can't have such leaks."...

The Sabotage Theory

Having adopted some measures to control the disaster, UCC initiated an effort to identify the cause. It took permission from the government to clean up the site and carried out the work under the direction of state and central government authorities...

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