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.
By Nick Parkinson2021-02-19T17:15:00+00:00
Messer has received four wrongful death lawsuits in a Georgia state court relating to the six workers who were killed by a liquid nitrogen leak at a poultry processing plant in Gainesville, Georgia, on Jan. 28.
Colleen Murphy asserted claims for the wrongful death of her husband, Corey Murphy, on Tuesday and was followed by similar lawsuits brought by three other victims at the Foundation Food Group plant – Jose De Jesus Elias Cabrer, Saulo Suarez-Bernal and Victor Vellez – on Thursday this week.
The lawsuits claim Messer failed to properly maintain and repair the a cryogenic liquid nitrogen system at the poultry plant.
A second wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in Gwinnett County State Court against the company responsible for the maintenance of the Foundation Food Group liquid nitrogen system.
The lawsuit was filed yesterday on behalf of the estate of Saulo Suarez-Bernal, a 40-year-old assembly line worker at the plant who was one of six employees that died on January 28 as a result of a liquid nitrogen leak. The estate is represented by Michael Goldberg at Fried Goldberg LLC as well as Jorge Virguez and Keren Barrios at Immigration and Injury Attorneys, Barios LLC.
Like the first lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Messer North America, Inc., Messer Gas LLC and an employee who allegedly performed maintenance on the system shortly before the incident, are named as defendants in the case. This case also names John Does as defendants, which according to a press release from Fried Goldberg, LLC, are possible entities that contributed to this tragedy. These potential defendants may be named follo
Gainesville Relief Offers Support for Families Affected by the Poultry Facility Accident
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GAINESVILLE, Ga., Feb. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In an effort to support the families of the six valued employees who died in the tragic January 28
th, 2021 accident that occurred at The Foundation Food Group facility in Gainesville, Georgia, the Northeast Georgia Latino Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), Georgia Poultry Federation (GPF), US Poultry Foundation (USPF) and Foundation Food Group are working together to assist the families of those lost by establishing Gainesville Relief.
The NGLCC, GPF and USPF join Foundation Food Group in extending deepest sympathies and prayers to the families and friends of our lost team members: