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A North Georgia chicken plant and its associated companies face $1 million in fines and scores of citations from the Biden administration over the deaths of six workers and injuries of a dozen in a nitrogen accident in January.
The U.S. Labor Department and its Occupational Safety and Health Administration agency announced 59 citations and the fines against Foundation Food Group, which runs the Gainesville plant, along with two other associated companies: Messer LLC - a nitrogen gas company, and FS Group Inc, a food processing equipment maker.
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PHOTO: Liquid nitrogen leak at a Georgia poultry plant has killed six people, with multiple others taken to the hospital, Photo Date: 1/28/2021
ATLANTA (AP) Federal workplace safety officials are proposing nearly $1 million in fines against four companies following a January liquid nitrogen leak that killed six workers at a northeast Georgia poultry processing plant.
U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh announced the citations and fines by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Friday.
Foundation Food Group, which owns the Gainesville plant, was cited for 26 violations with a proposed fine of $595,474.
OSHA fines and citations are often lowered following informal and formal appeal processes.
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A liquid nitrogen leak at a poultry plant in Georgia killed six workers in January.
Federal officials said Friday their deaths were entirely avoidable had the proper precautions been taken.
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Four companies have been fined a total of almost $1 million for a liquid nitrogen leak at a poultry plant in Gainesville, Georgia that killed six employees, federal officials said Friday.