Deadly liquid nitrogen leak at US poultry plant deemed preventable

Liquid nitrogen

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Incident that killed six workers resulted from multiple equipment and process failures

Almost three years after a liquid nitrogen release at a chicken processing plant in Georgia killed six workers and hospitalised several others, the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has concluded that the incident was triggered by multiple equipment and process failures, and made much more severe by inadequate emergency preparedness.