[ad_1] Thursday was a bad day for industrial workers. Poisonous gas that leaked from a storage tank at a polymer factory near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh reportedly killed 11 people and affected more than 1,000 in the first hours. Horrifying images and videos appeared showing people who had collapsed on …
Read More »Over 60% Styrene Vapor Leak From Cured Vizag Plant: Report – Andhra Pradesh
[ad_1] More than 60 percent of the styrene vapor that leaked Thursday from a tank at LG Polymers near Visakhapatnam, killing at least 11 people, has been polymerized so far and all of the chemical tanks at the plant are safe, it said Friday. District Collector V Vinay Chand. In …
Read More »35 years later, Bhopal gas leak failures resurface in Vizag
[ad_1] When I see images of the Vizag gas leak from the LG plant and hear about the deaths and injured people, it is a strange memory of the time I visited Bhopal in 1985, a few weeks after the toxic gas escaped from the Union Carbide plant in December. …
Read More »All efforts to address Vizag situation, government says after Prime Minister Modi meeting
[ad_1] Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting on Thursday morning to assess the steps being taken in response to the Vishakhapatnam gas leak incident, the government said in an official statement. “He discussed at length the measures being taken for the safety of the affected people, as well …
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