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How a Proposed Federal Heat Rule Might Have Saved These Workers’ Lives

KFF Health News

” Two days later, her brother, Jose Leandro-Barrera, died at age 45 with acute kidney failure caused by heatstroke, according to a report from the Hillsborough County medical examiner. But health policy and occupational health researchers say that worker deaths are not inevitable. Ramones said.