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Pregnant teen dies of heat stroke while pruning California vineyard
Good gosh, this morning’s story from Decanter.com entitled Worker died pruning on Two Buck Chuck co-owner’s land is shocking — particularly the following paragraph:
Her fiancee told officials that the supervisors did not call for medical help after Jimenez collapsed, didn’t offer her water or shade, and later told him to lie to hospital staff about his fiancee’s age and whom she was working for.
I realize it’s early in the investigation, and we haven’t heard all sides of what happened, but good God … a 17-year-old pregnant worker is dead.
The Associated Press reports that State officials are shutting down the San Joaquin Valley farm labor contractor that hired the teen.
Perhaps someone, somewhere should have acted sooner.
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