What is often considered the "world's worst industrial disaster" and what year did it happen?

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Bhopal disaster.  On December 3, 1984, a Union Carbide subsidiary pesticide plant released 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas, immediately killing nearly 3,000 people and ultimately causing at least 15,000 to 22,000 total deaths.