CHAPTER 9: BHOPAL: THE WORLD’S WORST INDUSTRIAL DISASTER – OWEN GREGORY
‘Traditionally, the severity of accidents in chemical process industries has been gauged on the basis of the human lives [lost]. However, factors such as loss of assets, contamination of surroundings and the resultant trauma also contribute to a very large extent towards the adverse impact of such accidents.’ – (Khan & Abbasi, 1998, p. 305).
The chemical release in 1984 in the Indian city of Bhopal is arguably the worst industrial disaster ever. Fatality estimates vary dramatically from the Madhya Pradesh State Government’s estimate of 3,000 to Greenpeace’s 8,000. In fact, Greenpeace claim that as many as 20,000 have suffered premature deaths since the disaster, a statistic ...
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