industrial disasters
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These are the disasters caused by industrial companies –
disaster
either by accident or negligence/incompetence
great damage to property, human life and environment
Defense:In defense accidents are mainly
caused by explosives in storage buildings
Improper maintenance or violating Standard Operating Procedures
º INS Sindhurakshak submarine- sinkeddue to explosions and 18 killed on board
º Military Storage Center in Rawalpindi, Pakistan exploded – more than 1300 killed
Manufacturing
Due to fire, explosion, electrocution
or building collapse
40 killed in fireworks factory explosion
in Sivakasi on 2012
An eight-story factory building collapsed
on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh,
and killed 1129 people.
Mining
fire, explosion, suffocation, formation of chemical gases, flood, landslide or earth wall collapse
Soma mine disaster in Turkey. An explosion occurred 2km below the surface. Fire and CO poisoning killed 301.
Dhanbad coal mine explosion killed 375 miners on 1965
Energy
accidents in power generating industries, nuclear reactors, oil- spill or explosion during transportation
Chernobyl disaster – uncontrolled reactor led to meltdown. Killed 100 & radiation affected 10,000 people.
December 9,2014 – an oil tanker collision caused 3.5L furnace oil spread in Sundarbans ,Bangladesh an protected mangrove area
Chemical Industryimproper maintenance and safety
procedures, unskilled workers
Bhopal Gas Tragedy – December 3,1984
MIC- Methyl Iso Cyanate gas leakage in a pesticide manufacturing company.
Reduction in investment led to old equipment, less no of workers and no maintenance to reduce loss by Union Carbide Ltd. Death toll around 15,000 within two weeks and 5 lakh people affected
10 workers buried alive after wall collapse of effluent tank in SIPCOT, Ranipet.
common effluent facility for 80 Tanneries, which had more sludge than its capacity and poor structure of unauthorized tank
1.5 lakh chemical sludge spread surrounding area and it will contaminate soil and ground water of that region