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The Industrial Disaster That Makes Chernobyl Look Like Kindergarten

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

What the Fuck Is Wrong With These People?

In 1976, the two trade unions that represented the plants workers sent out letters of complaint to their managers in the Indian ministry of labor. In 1981, things had gotten bad enough that phosgene gas spewed out of a badly maintained holding tank and into the face of a worker. Leaks continued to happen every month or so, injuring workers at a steady pace. The factory began to degrade further as wages were cut and standards for workers started dropping union carbides stopped requiring all of their employees to have degrees.

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