A Georgia Chicken Town Reels After a Plant Disaster
A nitrogen leak killed six workers and injured 11, but many in the heavily undocumented work force, advocates said, are too fearful to go in for medical checks.
A nitrogen leak at the Foundation Food Group poultry plant killed six people in Gainesville, Ga., this week. Nearly 12 percent of the city’s residents are in the country illegally.Credit.Nicole Craine for The New York Times
Jan. 29, 2021
GAINESVILLE, Ga. The morning after a nitrogen leak in a chicken plant killed six people in the self-proclaimed poultry capital of the world, nearly everyone in its big Latino community choked down their grief and fear and did what they had come to Gainesville to do.