Four lawsuits have been filed against global gas giant Messer Co. in the wake of a liquid nitrogen leak that left six poultry processing plant workers dead and 12 injured.
Foundation Food Group’s plant seen from the Memorial Drive entrance in Gainesville, Ga., on Jan. 29, 2021. (Scott Rogers/The Times via AP)
ATLANTA (CN) Chemical gas mega-company Messer Co. was hit this week by four wrongful-death lawsuits filed by the families of workers who died in a massive liquid nitrogen leak at a Georgia poultry processing plant last month.
The complaints all allege that the Messer Group, the world’s largest privately held industrial gas enterprise, and one of its employees failed to properly inspect or repair a liquid nitrogen cryogenic freezing system that led to the deadly Jan. 28 nitrogen leak at the Foundation Food Group facility in Gainesville.