THIS is why Americans don't want to do farm work

[LJ_Reloaded]

https://ufw.org/heatosha18/

Soaring temperatures at work will make thousands of Americans seriously ill this summer. Some will even suffer a heat stroke and lose their lives. In California we dealt with this problem by fighting to establish the first permanent outdoor heat regulations in the nation. In 2015 we were able to improve the regulations to protect even more workers. Washington has taken some action to protect outdoor workers, but more is needed. Minnesota has laws protecting indoor workers. But there are 47 other states.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...led-risk-for-heat-related-death-idUSKBN1DE2G3

Overall, 87 percent of the heat-related deaths occurred among Hispanics, and farms were most often cited as the place of excessive heat exposure.

A limitation of the study is that no occupational information was available to further explain the reason for death. However, it’s likely related to outdoor working conditions on farms, said Tarik Benmarhnia of the University of California at San Diego who wasn’t involved in the study.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2015/11/19/death-fields/74058984/

On some of the richest farmland in America, the hardest labor is performed in searing heat.

Most every year, farmworkers die in 90 or 100 degree heat but are never counted as heat-related fatalities by California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA).

While the agency investigated 55 agriculture deaths between 2008 and 2014, it categorized six as heat related, according to data obtained by The Desert Sun. Of the 209 farmworker illnesses investigated in the same period, Cal/OSHA confirmed 97 as heat related.

Farmworker fatalities peaked at 15 in 2014. However, Cal/OSHA found that none of those fatalities were heat related. At least 13 of those farmworkers did not belong to a union, including a man who died in 109-degree heat after picking lemons Sept. 2 in a Mecca field.

American citizens don't want to do this work because DYING is no way to make a living... not because they're lazy.

 

[BotanyBoy]

American citizens don't want to do this work because DYING is no way to make a living... not because they're lazy.

Sure it is!

You just drink water and don't be a pussy about it.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Sure it is!

You just drink water and don't be a pussy about it.

You do no such thing when the employer won't let you. Unless, of course, you want to be fired.

 

[jaF0]

And yet Americans have worked farms for hundreds of years, long before air conditioning, piped water, coolers and large scale agriculture machines.

What's happened in the last 30 years?

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

And yet Americans have worked farms for hundreds of years, long before air conditioning, piped water, coolers and large scale agriculture machines.

And they died doing it, too.

Who wants to die on the job? Do you?

Well, do you? I can't hear youuuuuuuuuuuuu

hellooooooooo

Where'd you run to, boyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

 

[Boxlicker101]

And they died doing it, too.

Who wants to die on the job? Do you?

Well, do you? I can't hear youuuuuuuuuuuuu

hellooooooooo

Where'd you run to, boyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I and hundreds of others did farm labor in the 1960's. It was hard work, and frequently hot, but we did it, and I never knew of anybody dying from it.

 

[talldarkfellow]

Perspective

According to OSHA, in 2016 there were 2,083 workplace fatalities that resulted from transportation accidents and 849 fatalities ftom slips and falls.

Do this mean nobody should drive a car or climb a ladder on their job?

 

[Saint_Ann]

How many Americans have access to a farm?

 

[Boxlicker101]

How many Americans have access to a farm?

Almost all of them, if we are referring to factory farms.

 

[BotanyBoy]

You do no such thing when the employer won't let you. Unless, of course, you want to be fired.

I am the employer, and you can't deny your employees water and work them to death.

It's not only illegal but bad for bidniz.

Newsflash buddy, it's not 1818 anymore.

 

[IG_88]

Americans don't work the manual labor farm jobs because they don't want to. That isn't a big secret. It's hard, nasty work for low pay. Has nothing to do with hazards.
Besides it's not like we can air condition the outside so deal or starve.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

I and hundreds of others did farm labor in the 1960's. It was hard work, and frequently hot, but we did it, and I never knew of anybody dying from it.

I am the employer, and you can't deny your employees water and work them to death.

It's not only illegal but bad for bidniz.

Newsflash buddy, it's not 1818 anymore.

So you're both saying that these reported deaths due to heat stroke are fake news? Let's have that one on record, shall we?

Is this also fake news?

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/08/migrant_laborers_sue_sauvie_is.html

Three migrant farmworkers who say they were fired from The Pumpkin Patch on Sauvie Island after they complained they needed a water break on a hot summer day have filed a lawsuit against their former employer, seeking $5,500 a piece.

No, it's not fake news. Employers do deny water breaks to farm workers. Happens all the time. And people do die as a result of that.