It produced pesticides named Lannate and Vydate, which generated about $123 million in 2014, authorities say. Corteva, which assumed operation of DuPont’s agriculture division, told The ...

For months before that, according to Green and others, workers had complained about inadequate ventilation in the unit, which produces Lannate, DuPont's brand name for methomyl, a crop pesticide.

Three bodies were found on the third floor of the Lannate unit in La Porte, an area where DuPont employees were regularly assigned to physically open up pipes to clear gelatinous or liquid clogs ...

On Nov. 15 2014, veteran operator Crystal Rae Wise opened a faulty valve on a pipe carrying methyl mercaptan, a chemical used to manufacture DuPont’s popular insecticide called Lannate.

DuPont 's DD Crop Protection business has declared a label change for Finesse Cereal & Fallow herbicide. This label change allows planting BOLT technology soybeans four months after the ...

HOUSTON — More than six years after a toxic release killed four employees at the Dupont plant in La Porte ... the IBU produced pesticides called Lannate and Vydate, among other products.

according statements issued by DuPont and the Wise family attorney. Wise, an operator at the Lannate Unit, was killed last November when nearly 24,000 pounds of toxic methyl mercaptan spewed into ...

The fatal accident occurred after an employee inadvertently left open a piping valve, which caused a slushy material to block the flow of liquid MeSH into the Lannate process. To melt it ...

sold as DuPont Lannate and DuPont Vydate, Schmidt said. The products hit the market more than 40 years ago and have been off-patent for more than 20 years, yet are generating their highest ...

In November 2014, a toxic gas leak killed four workers inside a unit that manufactures a popular insecticide called Lannate. Just weeks after blasting DuPont for safety violations following a ...