USA: California farmworker's death from alleged heat exposure highlights need for implementation of protections & federal standards
الملخص
Date Reported: 21 سبتمبر 2023
الموقع: الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
أخرى
Not Reported ( الزراعة والمواشي ) - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: 1
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - المكسيك , الزراعة والمواشي , Men , Unknown migration status )القضايا
Heat exposure , الوصول والحصول على الأدوية , Occupational Health & Safety , الوفيات , Access to Non-Judicial Remedyالرد
Response sought: لا
الإجراءات المتخذة: The coroner reported there was no evidence heat was a factor in the worker's death. To repatriate his body the worker's family is raising money through a GoFundMe.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
"After farmworker's death in Fresno - area heat, UFW and Sen. Padilla say it's time for stronger protections at work,"
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As Fresno-area temperatures sizzled around 100 recently, a 59-year-old tomatillo field worker collapsed and died. The coroner listed the cause of death as cardiovascular disease caused by cholesterol buildup; the farmworkers’ union blamed it on working in such heat...
The case shines a spotlight on the effectiveness of a California law designed to protect workers laboring outdoors in searing temperatures — and it took center stage at a press conference called by U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla to push federal legislation that would impose stronger federal heat protections in workplaces.
Romero said the 59-year-old father of two, whose full name is Elidio Hernández Gómez, reported feeling ill to his supervisor but did not receive help. After he collapsed, his supervisor and coworkers did not report the incident, she said, but his coworkers were told to take him to a hospital...
Some of Hernández Gómez’s relatives have organized a GoFundMe page to raise money to send his body back to his native Guanajuato in Mexico. The page says Hernández Gómez died from a heart attack caused by working in the heat.
A staffer at the Fresno district office of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health told CalMatters Thursday the office has not received a report of the farmworker’s death...