Published:
January 29, 2021
A nitrogen leak killed six workers and injured 11, but many in the heavily undocumented work force, advocates said, are too fearful to go in for medical checks. "The Gainesville poultry industry preys on immigrant labor, recruiting undocumented workers and refugees to work in some of the most dangerous conditions of any sector in the economy," said John Fossum, a researcher at the University of Texas who has studied the industry. "It is an industrywide problem but particularly acute in Gainesville."