Industrial Accidents and Plant Explosions
Industrial accidents including plant explosions, pipeline leaks, and chemical releases can cause catastrophic damages, severe injuries and even mass deaths. Industrial accidents are a potential danger for people working in the heavy industry as well as neighbors and innocent bystanders that were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Those that live close to heavy industries can be at risk and should be aware of any dangers in their environments. Heavy industry has many benefits and is necessity for our modern World, but those running them should be responsible. Under Texas law those that make money and control heavy industries have a duty to be aware of potential dangers. They also have a duty to actively work to minimize dangers that they are aware of that could kill, poison, burn, or injure people or cause significant damage to property. Further, careless people or businesses that have made decisions to save money and these decisions have resulted in a catastrophic industrial accident should be held responsible for there actions. Families, businesses, and communities that have suffered significant damages from large explosions, chemical spills, fires, train derailment, flooding, or other large industrial accident need to be compensated. In some circumstances injured people, the family of a lost loved one, or a businesses can recover damages under Texas law. Below are some large industrial accidents that have caused substantial damage. Be careful and protect yourself and those that you love.
-CAI
Inc. Plant Explosion
- Danvers, Massachusetts -
November 22,
2006
- Could be
heard up to 20 miles away
- About 90
homes damaged and around 25 on those were destroyed
-
Approximately 10 people were injured
-BP
Plant Explosion
- Texas City, Texas -
March 23, 2005
- Killed 15
and injured 170 people
- BP set
aside 1.6 billion to take care of the damages caused
-The
Explosion
- Texas City, Texas -
April 16, 1947
- The blast
took nearly 600 lives
- Millions of
dollars in property, and it scarred the town
-Formosa
Plastics Corp. Explosions and Chemical Releases
- Point Comfort, Texas -
October 6, 2005 and Illiopolis,
Indiana - April 24, 2004
-
Five people killed
- Several
others injured
-Union
Carbide Chemical Tragedy -
Bhopal, India -
December 3, 1984
- 15,000
people died
- Tons of
poisonous chemicals are still exposed to the environment
- Soil
samples show other toxic materials have leached underground,
contaminating the
water supply