USA: Agricultural labour supplier Agri McNeill Labor Management cited for health & safety violations following Mexican worker's heatstroke death
摘要
日期: 2024年4月15日
地点: 美国
企业
Agri McNeill Labor Management - Employer受影响的
受影响的总人数: 数字未知
外劳和移民工人: ( 1 - 墨西哥 , 糖 , Gender not reported )议题
Occupational Health & Safety , 疾病 , Heat exposure , 死亡 , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time回应
Response sought: 否
后续行动: The company faces a possible USD27,655 penalty and is contesting teh investigation.
信息来源: News outlet
"Florida company cited over worker's heat death amid state's ban on heat illness prevention,"
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 under a Biden administration pledge to "expand lawful pathways as an alternative to irregular migration," had later died.
The Labor Department says the migrant worker's death could have been avoided had the Belle Glade, Fla.-based McNeill labor management company taken the effort to implement heat-related safety rules to protect workers...