A 28-year-old laborer died from heat exposure during his first shift at a farm in Florida, just the day after he moved from Mexico, the Department of Labor says.
The laborer arrived in the US on December 31, 2022, to harvest vegetables at a farm in Parkland with a work visa, the DOL said. On his first day of work, January 1, the laborer spent around five hours pulling weeds and placing wooden stakes in the ground to support bell pepper plants at C.W. Hendrix Farms, per the DOL.
"Struggling to keep pace with more experienced farmworkers, he complained of fatigue and leg pain as the area's heat index neared 90 degrees," the DOL said in a
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