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Workers Overwhelmingly Back OSHA’s Proposed Heat Protections
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 Dec. 5, 2024 | HEALTH & SAFETY | Harold Schlechtweg, a former Directing Business Representative for Service Employees Local 513 in Wichita, Kansas, tells of the fate of a worker harmed by intense heat. “Several years ago, one of my members was seriously injured by heat stroke,” Schlechtweg e-mailed in late November to the regulations comments section for OSHA. “He worked 14 years without missing a day of work because of illness. He was visibly distressed at the end of one work day. But he came back and worked a full shift the next, on one of the hottest days of summer. He collapsed outside the door of his un-air-conditioned apartment and was taken to a hospital by ambulance. “This was more than 25 years ago. He has been confined to a nursing home ever since… All workers need [mandatory heat] protection, not just those in a union.” People’s World
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