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An ammunition plant in Sayreville, New Jersey, exploded, killing approximately 100 people, destroying 300 buildings and causing $18 million in damages. March 1, 1924: 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster. A plant for processing ammonium nitrate in Edison, New Jersey, exploded, killing 24 people, injuring 100 and destroying several buildings.
The 2021 Georgia poultry plant accident was an industrial disaster that occurred on January 28, 2021, in Gainesville, Georgia, United States. Six people were killed by asphyxiation [ 1 ] and at least ten were injured when a liquid nitrogen leak occurred inside a poultry processing plant owned by Foundation Food Group.
By comparison, the three Foster Poultry Farms plants in the Valley had lower self-reported injury rates, at 23.9 injuries per 100 employees at the Livingston plant; 20 injuries per 100 employees ...
On Monday, the food processing company announced that it would close its Emporia, Kansas facility in February 2025. Over 800 employees of the plant were notified about the closure in a letter.
It also comes less than a year after the government fined another sanitation services provider $1.5 million for employing more than 100 kids — ages 13 to 17 — at 13 meat processing plants in ...
Over the Labor Day weekend of 1991, the plant's maintenance crew reviewed the hydraulic system of a conveyor belt which moved chicken tenders into a 29-foot-long (8.8 m), 300-gallon Stein fryer in the processing room. During the previous months one of the hydraulic lines—which connected the machine box to the belt—had periodically leaked.
The plant came under the control of ConAgra Foods in 1998. By June 2009, the 450,000 square feet (42,000 m 2 ) factory was the only one in the world which produced Slim Jims and employed 900 people, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] making it the largest employer in the town of Garner .