Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is pausing citywide trash and recycling collection tomorrow after a sanitation worker died on the job of heat related illness.

In response to the tragedy on Friday, the Department of Public Works (DPW) “will conduct a mandatory heat safety training session on Tuesday, August 6,” the agency said in a press release and text alert today.

The worker’s death came on the heels of multiple scathing reports by Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming about chronic hazardous working conditions for trash truck crews laboring in high heat without air conditioning, ice and cold water.

“The training session will focus on the Occupational Safety Health Administration’s guidelines for recognizing the signs and symptoms of heat stroke and related illnesses and ensure employees recognize heat stress hazards and act appropriately to address those hazards,” the DPW release said.

The gesture comes too late for Ronald Silver II, 36, who died Friday while performing his duties in the Barclay neighborhood in North Baltimore.

Silver’s death was described in clinical terms today by state officials who conducted an autopsy and provided their findings to the media...

City officials had issued a Code Red heat advisory as the heat index reading climbed to 105°F...

While tomorrow’s heat training will be offered to all DPW employees, it is only mandatory for employees at the two locations where Solid Waste crews are based...