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A fatal nitrogen leak that killed six workers at a Gainesville chicken plant in 2021 was exacerbated by an “inadequate emergency preparedness.”
US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 5,333 workers died on the job in 2019, or one every 99 minutes The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), an agency within the US Department of Labor (DOL), reported last month that 5,333 US workers died due to workplace injuries in 2019, an increase of 2 percent from the previous year. This is the highest number of workplace deaths in the United States since 2007. This grisly figure has been steadily rising since a temporary decline during the 2008-2009 recession, when millions of people left the labor force altogether. In the years since, the jobs wiped o...
Immigrant rights groups in Georgia are calling for stronger worker protections after a nitrogen leak at a poultry plant in North Georgia killed six people and injured about a dozen others. The plant has had several workplace violations over the past several years, according to records from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The latest includes two amputations in 2017. “At the same facility, there was a lack of goggles,” says Shelly Anand, executive director of Sur Legal Collaborative. The organization advocates for immigrant workers’ rights in Georgia. Maria del Rosa...
On Jan 28, six poultry workers died as a result of a liquid nitrogen leak at the Foundation Foods poultry plant, formerly known as Prime Pak, in Gaine
A liquid nitrogen leak at a food-processing plant killed six people in the US city of Atlanta.