Risk Factors for Heat-Related Illness in Washington Crop Workers
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Preventing heat-related illness among agricultural workers.
Hyperthermia from exertion and environmental conditions during agricultural work manifests itself by various symptoms and may lead to death. From 1992 through 2006, 68 workers employed in crop production and related services died from heat-related illness. The crop worker fatality rate averaged 4 heat-related deaths per one million workers per year-20 times higher than the 0.2 rate for US civil...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Agromedicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1059-924X,1545-0813
DOI: 10.1080/1059924x.2015.1047107