More lawsuits filed for those affected by Foundation Food Group nitrogen leak Foundation Food Group, pictured Jan. 29, 2021 - photo by Scott Rogers
Four more lawsuits have been filed on behalf of the workers killed and injured following the Jan. 28 Foundation Food Group nitrogen leak in Gainesville, according to court documents.
The four suits were filed Thursday, Feb. 18, in Gwinnett County State Court.
Three of the wrongful death lawsuits filed Thursday were for: Veronica Vellez, the wife of Victor Vellez, 38; Yedith Alejandra Gauna, the wife of Edgar Uriel Vera-Garcia, 28; and Maria Piedad Cabrera Galicia, the mother of Jose de Jesus Elias Cabrera, 45.
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.