The document provides information about methyl isocyanate, including its physical and chemical properties, health and environmental hazards, fire data, applications, and details about the Bhopal disaster. It occurred at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India in 1984 when a leak of methyl isocyanate gas exposed over 500,000 people, resulting in thousands of deaths. The causes included technological errors in the plant's safety systems and containment of the chemical, as well as organizational, operational, and legal errors.