Summary
Bayer CropScience is a pesticide producing company in West Virginia. It is independently operated company within Bayer Group, which is its pharmaceutical parent company with its headquarters in Leverkusen, Germany. The company operates in three markets, Bayer CropScience, Bayer HealthCare and Bayer Material Science. Bayer CropScience is a global provider of crop protection agents such as herbicides, insecticides and fungicides for both commercial and private use (Monheim, 12).
On 28th august 2008, two workers were fatally injured when a waste tank having the pesticide methomyl aggressively blasted, destroying the Bayer CropScience chemical plant processing unit in West Virginia. The accident happened ...