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The supervisor opened the valve that unleashed forty tonnes of gas
A night-shift supervisor at a Bhopal pesticide plant opened a valve as a leaking tank overfilled - how did that expose them?
The supervisor opened the valve that unleashed forty tonnes of gas
In this episode, we hear the documented sequence of decisions, equipment failures, and warnings that led to the Bhopal disaster of December 1984. It lays out who did what, which safety systems were offline, and the choices that set a catastrophe in motion - what pressures and assumptions produced that fateful decision?
Person: Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL)
Date: December 3, 1984
Location: Bhopal…
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