9 Oct 2025
In Spain, Farmworkers Are Dying in the Heat
Summary
Date Reported: 14 Aug 2025
Location: Spain
Companies
Agroalimentària El Pla - Client , Empleo Express - Labour SupplierAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Romania , Agriculture & livestock , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Deaths , Heat exposure , Occupational Health & Safety , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Restricted access to medicines , Restricted mobilityResponse
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
External link to response: (Find out more)
Action taken: Agroalimentària El Pla said they would launch an "exhaustive" internal review with the aim of reinforcing prevention protocols. Empleo Express indicated that the man had received training and information on occupational risks.
Source type: News outlet
Summary
Date Reported: 1 Sep 2025
Location: Spain
Other
Not Reported ( Agriculture & livestock ) - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Senegal , Agriculture & livestock , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Heat exposure , Occupational Health & Safety , Deaths , Access to Justice & Legal ProtectionResponse
Response sought: No
Source type: News outlet
Summary
Date Reported: 9 Oct 2025
Location: Spain
Other
Not Reported ( Agriculture & livestock ) - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Morocco , Agriculture & livestock , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Heat exposure , Occupational Health & Safety , Illness , Access to WaterResponse
Response sought: No
Source type: News outlet
Summary
Date Reported: 9 Oct 2025
Location: Spain
Other
Not Reported ( Agriculture & livestock ) - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Senegal , Agriculture & livestock , Men , Documented migrants )Issues
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Poverty WagesResponse
Response sought: No
Source type: News outlet
Summary
Date Reported: 9 Oct 2025
Location: Spain
Other
Not Reported ( Agriculture & livestock ) - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Gambia , Agriculture & livestock , Men , Undocumented migrants )Issues
Wage Theft , Minimum Wage , Precarious/Unsuitable Living ConditionsResponse
Response sought: No
Source type: News outlet
Summary
Date Reported: 9 Oct 2025
Location: Spain
Other
Not Reported ( Agriculture & livestock ) - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Mauritania , Agriculture & livestock , Men , Undocumented migrants )Issues
Other Discrimination , Poverty WagesResponse
Response sought: No
Source type: News outlet
Summary
Date Reported: 9 Oct 2025
Location: Spain
Other
Not Reported ( Labour supplier ) - Employer , Not Reported ( Agriculture & livestock ) - ClientAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Pakistan , Agriculture & livestock , Men , Undocumented migrants )Issues
Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Restricted access to medicines , Denial of permanent contracts , Occupational Health & Safety , Heat exposure , Deaths , Heat exposureResponse
Response sought: No
Source type: News outlet
Three migrant farmworkers died from heatstroke in Spain this summer. Largely ignored by media, their fate illustrates how the effects of the climate crisis are offloaded on the least visible workers…
Gheorghe Vranciu was on a ten-hour shift picking fruit near Lleida, Catalonia. By 2 p.m., the sixty-one-year-old Romanian had become overwhelmed by the heat — and asked to go home…
…During record temperatures in June, an undocumented Pakistani worker also succumbed to heatstroke after being dropped outside the entrance of a medical center in Fraga, Aragón, by colleagues who then fled the scene…
According to the Andalusian Workers’ Union (SAT), a farm laborer from Senegal, who worked in the vast industrial greenhouses in the southern region of Almería, also died of heatstroke on the job on August 27. A forty-year-old Moroccan was admitted to an intensive care unit for the same condition in Murcia, having worked most of his shift without a water break…
… those whose work sustains this lucrative sector now find themselves on the front line of the country’s climate crisis…
… Vranciu was working for a temporary employment agency on an estate of a company controlled by one of Catalonia’s richest men…
Payment below the legal daily minimum — €57.50 — is chronic in Huelva…