Bhopal Plant Responsible For The Production Of Carbaryl

The first part of Toms River by Dan Fagin goes into detail about the history of the chemical industry in New Jersey with the Ciba plant producing dyes and epoxy and their methods of disposing of waste and what effect that had on surrounding individual’s health. There were many groups of people who were exposed to the toxic chemicals produced in the waste products of dyes and epoxy from the Ciba plant. People who were working the factory typically had peak exposure because they were required to scrape and dispose of the waste chemicals daily. Residents of a neighborhood downstream the factory who typically had personal wells and were not customers of Toms River Water avoided the chemically traced water directly from the river for some time,

The W.R. Grace Company, Riley Eannery, and Unifirst Corporation were prominent factories in Wobourn. Jan speculated they were to have illegally dumped a dangerous carcinogen known as TCE into the ground, sewer, and water systems of the Woborn community. These poisons were thought by Jan, and the community, to have polluted two water wells that acted as a water supply for the community. Many of the people who worked at the factories experienced many medical problems such as cancer and died at young ages. Community members experienced numerous medial problems such as flu-like symptoms, memory loss, cancers, leukemia, burning eyes, and skin, and death. The water over the years was said to have gone from natural, to smelling, to dark and dangerous.

There is certainly not enough space to examine all twelve stories presented in Lerner’s book in this paper, and they are all shocking—both in terms of the level of exposure to toxic chemicals and the questionable choices of corporate and government officials—but a few stories stand out.

DuPont was aware of the harmful effects this chemical had on animals and people but ignored the issue in accordance of high profit. Not only were people affected in the local community, but people in surrounding areas were also affected. Thousands of people and large amounts of property were inflicted with poor air quality and poor drinking water. DuPont had later discovered that there were dust fumes emerging from the factories that were unhealthy for people to inhale, and later found it in the drinking water. DuPont also found an astonishing key of evidence, they had found PFOA in the water, and it was twice the amount of what was allowed, and could cause some serious issues. They had known about the levels and did not notify any workers or anyone in the community due to the fear of loss of profit. Men and women were coming home with a fever, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting. These workers endured injurious experiences, and were never notified about the condition in which they were working. DuPont was named as not trustworthy, and at times known to practice illegal activity. After going through the experiences of which they just endured, they might go through the process of mental thinking or what they just went through was not right and should not have happened to me. That process is known as

The article from the Huffington Post entitled Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia: Home to the most brazen, deadly corporate gambits in U.S. history describes the atrocities performed in part by the DuPont chemical plant in West Virginia. The plant was dispersing its hazardous chemicals into the streams and landfills. The hazardous chemical known as C8 was causing extreme health effects to the local residents of the town of Parkersburg. People were getting severely ill and people’s cattle were dying faster than they could be replaced. Yes, these acts were heinous, but the worst of it all was the fact that the company had so much control of the area that they were able to keep doing what they were doing and only face minor penalties if any…sickening. So basically the lesson here is, if you have money and the resources, you can control just about anything. DuPont had both, and that is why they were able to do what they did. C8, or Perfluorooctanoic acid was the chemical that was causing the massive health issues across the state. People were wanting to sue DuPont for the takeoff of C8 being into the water that they were partaking in.

The boilers had already not been in good shape plus the pressure of about 2 thousand more people that there were supposed to be boarded on that boat. The boat at to stop a couple times to fix the boilers and almost every stop they pick up more people.The Sultana was made for 376 people, at the times about 2,300 people were boarded on that boat. Before the explosion they had to stop 2 to 3 times just to fix the boiler and the last time they ¨fixed¨ the boiler the job wasn't fully done. Between the weight and the boiler none of it added up correctly. The boiler was already damaged and 2,000 extra people they should have known it was going to end good. Although they didn't really have anyway warning besides the having to fix the boiler multiple times and they knew

In the beginning of this essay I would like to present some facts and figures related to our topic. On December 3, 1984, at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India there was a deadly leak of methyl isocyanate. It caused thousands of people to die and affected generations to come. The leak happened due to a series of human and mechanical failures. The local health officials were neither knowledgeable about the deadly chemical that was being stored there nor were they equipped to handle the tragedy. Another incident happened at the Union Carbide plant in West Virginia. A toxic cloud of the same chemical was leaked into the atmosphere and it was a shocking reminder that such accidents could happen in the both developed and developing countries. The statistics prove that chemical spills occur on a regular basis in different parts of the world. In 1976 there were

made by these companies reveal systemic failures in risk management raising questions about the safety

Was there no forethought in the decision to use these chemicals? Killing off the food supply for the country you are there to

POWs to death with the pesticide Zyklon-B. The SS soon placed a huge order for the gas with a

His boss Charles F. Kettering had a case land on his desk, or rather had a knock at the door of the lab to correct a problem in the internal combustion engines of GM cars. A problematic knocking. The combusting inside the engine, the tiny explosion of fuel and spark that moved the intricate pieces of the engine caused a knocking, which was catastrophic to the engine, and to business. General Motors commissioned the lab to correct this problem, to build a more reliable engine so that families would consider purchasing their cars. Out of every chemist in the lab Thomas Midgley was the first to solve the case. It took him six years. Going block by block, column to column, row to row on a periodic table that he kept tucked away in his wallet, Midgley discovered that if he added tetraethyllead to gasoline the knock dissipated. His invention took the world by storm and GM created The Ethyl Corporation in 1921 and named Thomas Midgley the vice president. The next year at the Indianapolis Five Hundred the top three finishing cars ran on leaded gasoline. General Motors began mass producing tetraethyllead. The first plant was built in Deepwater New Jersey. The first to go mad was Harry Zanes. On September 9, 1923. He began seeing butterflies, inside the dark, damp factory. Fluttering and flitting their wings. tickle his hands while he was working. He began having nightmares, twitching, loss of appetite. Things took a turn for the worse when he became violent. He was put into a straight jacket. He survived, but was never the same again. He was among the three hundred that had fallen ill. Frank “Happy” Durr was the first one to die, he also went mad. A few that went mad became so violent that they needed to be institutionalized. It was a miserable way to die. What Thomas Midgley, what the government didn’t know then was that lead, when exposed to skin is

In 1942 Hooker Electrochemical Corporation (now Hooker Chemical and Plastics, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation) began to fill an abandoned canal a half-mile long with toxic chemicals from the manufacture of chlorinated hydrocarbons and caustics. [2]

the offence chain for imprisoned adult male firesetters (descriptive model of adult male firesetting).” Legal and Criminological Psychology 20 (1): 48-67. Accessed September 07, 2015. doi: 10.1111/lcrp.12071

Three causes of the 1984 Bhopal Chemical Plant disaster in India were long-term financial difficulties, poor safety management and inadequate emergency plans. The disaster occurred when water entered a methyl isocyanate (MIC) storage tank, which led to a runaway reaction and then discharged toxic MIC vapour into the atmosphere. The leak caused the deaths of more than 2,000 people and injured about 200,000 locals in the surrounding shanty towns (Kletz 2009, p. 338).

The second section of the book focused on the chemical industry, specifically vinyl chloride, where it was explained there was little known about the effects of chemicals. Because of this, there was the question of whether “a product was to be considered safe until proven dangerous” or vice versa where a product was considered dangerous until proven safe. This time the public showed greater opposition to the use of vinyl chloride, as environmentalists and labor unions united to reveal the harmful effects of it. Similar to the lead industry, the chemical industry also fought back reasoning to the government that only high levels of chemical exposure was harmful to people and the government