Union Carbide - Bhopal
In order to gain market share and maintain profits in a time of a declining pesticide market, Union Carbide entered the manufacturing of raw materials, chemicals, and intermediate products for pesticides. Union Carbide hoped it would be able to sell the raw materials to other manufacturers. On December 2, 1984 a failure in the plant caused 10,000 deaths in the first night.
Paul Shirvastave, Bhopal: Anatompy of a crisis. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1987. p 54.
Micheal E. Gorman, et al., Ethical and Environmental Challengers to Engineering. Prentice Hall., 2000. p 210-224