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January 29, 2021

At Least 2 Mexican Nationals Among Six Dead After Nitrogen Leak at Georgia Poultry Plant 
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In Georgia, at least six people were killed after a liquid nitrogen leak
at a Gainesville poultry processing plant Thursday. Nearly a dozen
others were sent to the hospital. The plant is owned by the Foundation
Food Group. Mexican officials said at least two of the workers who died
were from Mexico. Most of the workforce in Gainesville's meat processing
plants are Latinx. In 2019, four in every 100 meat processing plant
workers in the U.S. recorded a workplace injury and at least 12 people
died at the workplace.


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