Plaintiff attorneys representing the daughter of two individuals who died in a Georgia poultry plant incident in which six workers died and nearly 50 other employees were injured are contesting a settlement agreement reached in a wrongful-death lawsuit.
The incident happened Jan. 28, 2021, when a Messer-owned immersion freezer at Gainesville’s Foundation Food Group (FFG) poultry plant had an allegedly defective bubbler tube that allowed an overflow of liquid nitrogen in a freezer tank, sucking all the oxygen out of the air and causing the workers in the room to asphyxiate. Messer, a German-based company, is part of Messer Group, the world’s largest privately owned industrial gases business.
