Example:

1. Bhopal Gas tragedy

The methyl isocynate leak occurred on December 2, 1984. 3 years before, the comp
any executives were warned by US Auditors about the possible accidents that can
occur due to 6 safety gauges that were not properly maintained in the company, U
nion Carbide Corporation (Now, Dow chemical corporation).
This can be related to the principle mentioned above because the tragedy took li
ves of thousands of people and even today affects genetically 1 newly born child
every day. Had UCC followed the safety measures, the incident could have been a
voided.
2. Chernobyl nuclear disaster
This is perhaps the biggest nuclear disaster that has occurred till date. One of
the unethical incidents that had occurred is that the fire brigade men werenâ t info
rmed that this was far more dangerous than a regular electric fire. Due to this,
the men acted casually resulting in their deaths.
Following are the statements made by the firemen who were safe after the inciden
t:
Shortly after the accident, firefighters arrived to try to extinguish the fires.
First on the scene was a Chernobyl Power Station firefighter brigade under the
command of Lieutenant Volodymyr Pravik, who died on 9 May 1986 of acute radiatio
n sickness. They were not told how dangerously radioactive the smoke and the deb
ris were, and may not even have known that the accident was anything more than a
regular electrical fire: "We didn't know it was the reactor. No one had told us
."
â ¢ Grigorii Khmel, the driver of one of the fire-engines, later described what happ
ened:
We arrived there at 10 or 15 minutes to two in the morning ... We saw graphite s
cattered about. Misha asked: "What is graphite?" I kicked it away. But one of th
e fighters on the other truck picked it up. "It's hot," he said. The pieces of g
raphite were of different sizes, some big, some small enough
to pick up. We didn't know much about radiation. Even those who worked t
here had no idea. There was no water left in the trucks. Misha filled the cister
n and we aimed the water at the top. Then those boys who died went up to the roo
fâ Vashchik Kolya and others, and Volodya Pravik ... They went up the ladder ... and
I never saw them again.
â ¢ However, Anatoli Zakharov, a fireman stationed in Chernobyl since 1980, offers a
different description:
I remember joking to the others, "There must be an incredible amount of radiatio
n here. We'll be lucky if we're all still alive in the morning."