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Warren Anderson

On December the 2nd 1984, a Union Carbide factory leaked tons of Methyl Isocyanate (a deadly gas) through the streets of Bhopal, India.
More than 500,000 people were exposed to the gas, with 3,000 dying that very night. 20,000 people have since died from the after effects of the leak. More than 120,000 people are left with deformities, cancer, blindness, difficulties in breathing and many more illnesses. This is all thanks to a man named Warren Anderson, the chairman of the Trans National Corporation at the time of the leak. Warren Anderson joined the Union Carbide Corporation as a salesman in 1945, at this time his father, John Anderson, was the chairman of the company .In 1979 he became the president and 3 years later he became the chairman of the company.

In 1970 Union Carbide opened up a factory in Bhopal, India. On December 2nd 1984 an employee flushed a corroded pipe causing it to flow freely into the tank of Methyl Isocyanate. The water mixed with the Methyl Isocyanate and caused the gas to have an uncontrolled reaction causing it to run out of the container and create a massive black cloud of deadly chemicals over Bhopal.

Warren Anderson’s first fault was that he didn’t supply the right amount of Safety systems in the factory. There were 6 safety systems in the whole factory designed to prevent a gas leak and they were either turned off or broken. Also the safety siren which was meant to warn the community from incidents like this was turned off. The conditions in the Bhopal factory were terrible. There were very few safety signs. Workers were underpaid, the only reasons they took the dangerous jobs was for the little amount of money the got paid to support their families. The workers weren’t given any safety clothing when they were given the jobs or safety lessons, they didn’t wear masks or any sort of protection this is because Warren Anderson used the profits made for his own pleasure...