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Before tragedy, Foundation Food Group was looking to ‘start a new chapter’ Foundation Food Group at the Memorial Drive entrance. - photo by Scott Rogers Foundation Food Group was fresh off a merger between two Hall County companies and looking “to start a new chapter” in its short history when tragedy struck on Thursday with the deaths of six workers due to a nitrogen leak. “We’re excited to start a new chapter for Foundation Food Group, our customers, industry partners and our employees,” said Jerry Wilson, pr...

2021/02/02 07:08 ATLANTA (AP) — Immigrant advocates say they fear workers at a Georgia poultry plant where a liquid nitrogen leak killed six people may not come forward to federal investigators for fear of arrest and deportation. Speaking at a news conference, lawyer Shelly Anand called Monday on the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Homeland Security to work together to guarantee any of the workers in the country illegally be shielded from deportation. Anand, executive director of the Atlanta-based immigrant rights nonprofit Sur Legal Colla...

It’s not clear if any such protection will be forthcoming, though. The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor did not immediately answer questions Monday about whether workers who are talking to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, part of the Department of Labor, would be safe from deportation. Of the six workers who died Thursday after the nitrogen leak at the Foundation Food Group plant northeast of Atlanta, five were Mexican citizens. It’s unclear if any of them were in the country illegally. But that and other plants in Gainesville, the hub of...

Foundation Food Group supplies poultry to retail, foodservice A liquid nitrogen leak at a poultry plant owned by Foundation Food Group in the US state of Georgia has killed six workers. The incident occurred last Thursday (28 January) at the company's Gainsville facility – five people died at the scene and another in hospital. A message posted by Foundation Food Group (FFG) on its Facebook page read: "We are deeply saddened by the loss of our friends and team members. Our thoughts and prayers are with their families and our community during this most difficult time."  The US Chemical Safet...

Liquid nitrogen: What it’s used for and what can go wrong A tank marked Liquid Nitrogen sits outside Foundation Food Group along Memorial Park Drive. Hall County Fire Services and Gainesville Fire were called out to the plant around 10:12 a.m. on Jan. 28, 2021, to a report of burns at the plant where they discovered a large number of employees who had evacuated the building. - photo by Scott Rogers Refrigerants like liquid nitrogen, what leaked Jan. 28 at Gainesville’s Foundation Food Group, killing six, are frequently us...