The Vizag gas leak that occurred on the early hours of May 7, 2020 was due to the styrene leakage which happened due to human error and negligence in maintenance during the lockdown.
The poisonous gas, styrene, that leaked from a storage tank in the LG polymers factory near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh reportedly killed 11 people and affected more than 1000 in the early hours. Gruesome pictures and videos appeared, showing people having collapsed by the roadside. On the same day, another gas leak happened at a paper mill in the industrial town of Raigarh in Chhattisgarh, which sent seven workers to the hospital, and in another incident, a boiler blast at a thermal power station in Tamil Nadu wounded three.
1. Bhopal gas tragedy, India (1984): Often considered the world’s worst industrial disaster. This gas leak incident occurred at the Union Carbide India pesticide plant in Bhopal, India on the night of 2–3....
