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Within 4 years of operation, on December 2, 1984, 30 metric tons of highly poisonous MIC gas spewed from the UCIL plant. It is estimated that almost 20,000 people died, and nearly 200,000 people were exposed to the poisonous gas by varying degrees. The plant closed after the accident, and Union Carbide became a subsidy of Dow Chemical in 1999.