Friend,

The temperature was 100 degrees when Elidio Hernández went to work in a
Fresno-area tomatillo field. Soon into the day, the 59-year-old father of
two reported feeling ill to his supervisor, but was told to get back to
work.

By 2pm that day, Elidio had died.(1)

On the other side of the country, 30-year-old Lopez Garcia was working on
a Homestead, Florida, farm during a heatwave when he collapsed and
died.(2)

With climate change rampaging, heat related farm worker deaths are
becoming more common -- but instead of protecting workers, states are
making it easier to exploit and abuse them. That’s why we are joining
United Farm Workers to call on OSHA to provide farm worker-specific
protections to keep them safe.

[ [link removed] ]Help us tell OSHA: Protect farm workers!

[ [link removed] ]SIGN ON NOW

Between 1992 and 2023, heat stress injuries killed more than 1,000 workers
and harmed more than 100,000 more.(3) Farm workers are 35 times more
likely to die of heat injury than other occupations. But there is still no
federal protection for these hardworking individuals.

In the middle of the hottest summer on record, Texas Governor Greg Abbott
signed a law repealing mandated water breaks for outdoor workers. States
like Arkansas have weakened child labor laws. We need the federal
government to step in and mandate regular breaks, water supplies, and
cancellation of shifts if temperatures reach a certain degree.

We depend on farm workers to help us put food on the table, and we owe it
to them to not make their job deadly. OSHA must enact federal regulations
right away, as the heat will only get worse.

[ [link removed] ]Call on OSHA to protect farm workers now!

Thank you for joining the fight.

–Irene, along with Angela, Annie, Isidra, Jen, Sheena, and Lindsay (and
the rest of the Courage team)

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