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This paper examines the unethical behavior of both the Union Carbide headquarters in the United States and the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, and how the behavior and its actions led to one of the worst chemical disasters in history. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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a large area of Bhopal, India, killing thousands and leaving thousands more homeless and without a means to work. In the emotional fallout that followed the toxic fallout, Union Carbides
U.S. corporate headquarters pointed fingers at the Indian Union Carbide plant, while Union Carbide management in Bhopal did the same thing to the United States. It is clear, however, that
both Union Carbide, Inc. in the United States and Union Carbide India were to blame for the event, and that both must take ethical responsibility (and, in many ways, has
already done so) to ensure that another Bhopal doesnt occur. First we need to examine the accident itself. The Bhopal Union Carbide plant
was a major manufacturing facility that produced pesticide chemicals (Robertson and Fadil, 1998). Around midnight on December 3, a leak in one of the tanks that stored chemicals to produce
pesticides caused a chemical reaction, as it mixed with water, which, because of a faulty escape valve, caused the aforementioned cloud of toxic gas to cover Bhopal (Robertson and Fadil,
1998, see also Elmer-DeWitt, 1985). However, upon later examination, it was learned that the fault lay not with a leaky tank, but rather, with a disgruntled UC employee who had
removed a pressure gauge that was attached to the tank, stuck a hose in the hole and filled the tank with water (Dykes and Graham, 2002). When workers later on,
saw what had happened, they attempted to draw the water from the tank, but then fled when they noticed they couldnt (Dykes and Graham, 2002). After the smoke had cleared
- literally - Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson noted that the "worlds worst industrial accident had been caused by . . . gross violations of established safety procedures" (Elmer-DeWitt, 1985,
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