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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...led-risk-for-heat-related-death-idUSKBN1DE2G3
https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2015/11/19/death-fields/74058984/
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/
American citizens don't want to do this work because DYING is no way to make a living... not because they're lazy.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.