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Series of vigils held for 38-year-old farm worker who died during the heat wave


Kristian Foden-Vencil
Originally published on July 3, 2021 2:09 pm
A series of three vigils were held around Oregon on Saturday in memory of Sebastian Francisco Perez, a 38-year-old farm worker who died during a June heat wave that brought temperatures above 115 in the Willamette Valley.
Perez had been moving irrigation lines at Ernst Farms and Nursery in St. Paul when workers noticed he was missing. They found him unconscious and couldn’t revive him.
Vigils were organized in Hermiston, St. Paul and Portland, outside the honorary Guatemalan Consulate.
At the vigil in Portland, scores of people chanted his name and called for Oregon’s occupational safety agency, OSHA, to adopt emergency rules to deal with the heat. ....

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PCUN | Farmworker Death Related to Heat-Illness Amidst Oregon Heat Wave


Reyna Lopez, PCUN, Executive Director, [email protected] 
Farmworker Death Related to Heat-Illness 
Amidst Oregon Heat Wave 
while Oregon OSHA fails to adopt emergency rules ahead of the heatwave. 
WOODBURN, Ore. As people across the state looked for ways to cool down during the record-breaking heatwave, farmworkers continued to work in the fields despite the unsafe conditions. The failure to adopt emergency rules ahead of the heatwave, as well as wildfire season, by Oregon OSHA has left outdoor workers’ health and livelihood at the discretion of their employers. Unfortunately, the lack of rules has resulted in a work-related heat death of a farmworker on Saturday, June 26th on a farm in St.  Paul.  ....

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