Two farmworkers submitted comments to OSHA. One wrote to OSHA through Julie Samples, at the Oregon Law Center, and described struggling to take breaks and drink water during high temperatures at an orchard because he is paid by the amount he harvests and must meet a quota. Water was located three to five minutes from the worksite, but he knows it could be easier to access because other growers keep water closer to the orchards, he said.Ī nursery worker commented through Valentín Sánchez, also at the Oregon Law Center, that she worried about her co-workers who work under plastic greenhouses, where the sunlight diffuses the heat and there’s no shade. She also said some of them asked a supervisor for shade in the greenhouse but were denied, according to the comment. 'Something I'm passionate about': Children of farmworkers work to further their education OSHA received a number of complaints related to water, shade and breaks in high temperatures from agricultural worksites over the summer. OSHA provided the complaint data to the Statesman Journal. Nineteen of 219 heat-related complaints OSHA received from mid-June to late July were from agricultural or processing sites.
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