After a 25-year-old worker died from heat illness in 2020, the North Carolina DOL fined Florida Orange Gold $7,000 and told them to implement a heat rule. Two summers later, there was nothing to protect a 38-year-old worker from permanent disability.
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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina