[ad_1] Smoke rises from the LG Polymers plant, the site of a chemical gas leak, in Vishakhapatnam. The synthetic chemical styrene leaked from the industrial plant in southern India early Thursday, leaving people struggling to breathe and collapsing on the streets as they tried to flee. (Image: AP) The company …
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[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 …
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[ad_1] File photo of firefighters outside the LG Polymers in Vizag. (PTI) The company also bypassed the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification, which mandates that modernization and expansion of existing projects needs an environmental clearance (EC). News18.com Last Updated: May 9, 2020, 8:02 AM IST New Delhi: The manufacturing unit …
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[ad_1] Hundreds of people belonging to RR Venkatapuram and adjoining villages on the outskirts of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday gathered at the LG Polymers Ltd, demanding immediate closure of the plant from where there was a leakage of poisonous Styrene gas vapor on Thursday day that claimed 12 …
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[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 …
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[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. …
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[ad_1] Home / India News / Vizag gas leak: what is styrene and how can it kill if inhaled At least 11 people died and about 1,000 were affected after a factory chemical leaked and hung like smoke in nearby villages in the Visakhapatnam district in the early hours of …
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[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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