Labor Department cities Florida company over worker's heat death amid state's ban on heat illness prevention

[Omaha Steve]

Source: MSM UPI

Story by Chris Benson • 59m

April 15 (UPI) -- The Department of Labor on Monday said it cited a Florida company for its lack of preparedness to prevent heat-related illness after a heatstroke killed a 26-year-old worker from Mexico in September 2023.

McNeill Labor Management Inc. -- a company that provides contract laborers for agricultural markets throughout the United States -- was cited in the investigation by the federal Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which found that the unidentified Mexican national had died from heat-related injuries while working in an open sugar cane field.

An OSHA investigation found that he had experienced symptoms consistent with a heat-related illness and soon after collapsed.

The heat index reportedly had reached 97 degrees Fahrenheit in Palm Beach County, where the man, who was legally visiting the United States on the federal H-2A program for temporary or seasonal non-immigrant workers, died.



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[Chainfire]

1. As far at the sugar industry is concerned, that is just the cost of doing business. There will be someone ready and

waiting to fill the dead man's shoes.

[Escurumbele]

2. This is what happens when there are no real regulations, or they are ignored by corporations knowing

that a little gift to the governor and other politicians will get them off the hook without an issue.

Why normal people think regulations are bad I don't understand. The lack of enforceable regulations is why capitalism fails.

Its not that capitalism is bad, it is bad when corrupt politicians get rid of regulations or do not enforce them appropriately, the ones who suffer are the workers, the executives continue to get their big checks.

[lostnfound]

3. Culture of life strikes again