USA: Govt. investigates whether farmworkers' death on Ventura County farm was linked heat exposure
“Man dies while working on Oxnard farm during heat wave”
…A family is mourning the death of a 43-year-old man who died while working on a farm in Oxnard during the late-summer heat wave.
The family of Oscar Pimentel says he died from excessive heat, but his employer does not believe that. His death is under investigation…
His family says he died on Sept. 7, when most of Southern California sweated through a stretch of blistering heat…
The county medical examiner has yet to determine the cause of Pimentel's death…
The attorney representing Del Sol Harvesting, Pimentel's employer, says Cal/OSHA's heat stress guidance was provided to farming members in a newsletter about the heat wave on Sept. 6, the day before Pimentel died.
Del Sol Harvesting's attorney Rob Roy told Eyewitness News that the company says Pimentel was not doing strenuous work in the fields and believes other health issues may have led to his death…
Cal/OSHA is investigating Del Sol Harvesting. It could take up to six months to complete.
Pimentel was an employee there for eight years…