“There’s a lot we don’t know about farmworker deaths”

…A tobacco worker who spoke at the event said he was there to support his colleagues who died.

“We cannot lose any more lives,” he said. It was both a plea for help and a demand…

…hundreds of thousands of H-2A workers who now come to the U.S. each year, a large percentage end up in the South…

…the actual details surrounding the H-2A worker’s death differ from the account given to the media by Barnes Farming…

In a statement to Prism, an attorney with the firm Fisher & Phillips, LLP, which is representing Barnes Farming, appeared to dispute basic facts laid out by workers…

…workers alleged that a fellow farmworker died from heat stress but said their labor contractor claimed it was a heart attack. NCDOL had no record of these deaths…

…states like North Carolina with high numbers of H-2A workers are routinely ranked the worst to work in because of dismal labor protections. As global warming accelerates, these deadly labor conditions are certain to worsen…

…The agency’s heat stress “solutions” tab first asks workers to consider how they can protect themselves…