‘Lasting scars’: Five years after deadly nitrogen leak, survivors still live with the trauma - Gainesville Times

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‘Lasting scars’: Five years after deadly nitrogen leak, survivors still live with the trauma

Candles and flowers are left along Centennial Drive near Foundation Food Group Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, in memory of the six who died from a nitrogen leak at the plant. - photo by Scott Rogers

01302021 PRIME 1.jpg — Candles and flowers are left along Centennial Drive near Foundation Food Group Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, in memory of the six who died from a nitrogen leak at the plant. - photo by Scott Rogers

Five years after a preventable nitrogen leak at a Gainesville poultry plant killed six workers and injured a dozen others, the survivors and the families of the dead still bear the scars of what happened that day.