Tragedy in Washington and near-miss in California cast in sharp relief the risk of chemical spills and explosions ...

The release of a chemical intermediate, methyl isocyanate (MIC), at Bhopal, India, in December 1984 is considered the worst industrial chemistry accident on record. Understanding the root cause of the ...

In August 2008, an explosion of a pressurized vessel, known as a residue treater, at the Bayer CropScience (Bayer) facility in Institute, West Virginia resulted in the deaths of two plant employees, a ...

Bayer (BAY.DE) is storing 90 tonnes of methyl isocyanate -- the chemical that killed thousands in the 1984 Union carbide disaster at Bhopal -- in a storage tank in Institute, W.V., that has failed ...

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is responding to a congressional mandate for a yearlong, $575,000 study by the National Academy of Sciences on how to reduce or eliminate the stockpile at Bayer ...

The Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released its requirements for a study of the feasibility of reducing or eliminating the stockpile of methyl isocyanate (MIC) at the Bayer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now living in Canada, Saroj Bhattacharjee, 81, is shown with his son Shamik in 1984. Saroj was a maintenance engineer at Union ...

The use of hazardous chemicals such as methyl isocyanate can be a significant concern to the residents of communities adjacent to chemical facilities, but is often an integral, necessary part of the ...