Texas Workers Are Dying In The Summer Heat, And Companies Aren't Being Held Accountable
Just before dawn on July 7, 2018, Karl Simmons stood outside a motel in Fort Worth, Texas, waiting for his supervisor to arrive. It was his second day of work with Austin-based Hellas Construction Inc. His wife remembers Simmons called her.
“It feel good for now, but I know the heat coming” he said, according to a deposition she gave last year.
By the end of the day, Simmons, 30, would be dead, a victim of heat stroke. He is one of 53 workers who have succumbed to the brutal Texas heat since 2010, according to an investigation by Columbia Journalism Investigations, National Public Radio and The Texas Newsroom, a collaboration among Texas public radio stations and NPR.
An analysis of federal data on worker heat deaths shows the state’s tally has nearly doubled in the last 10 years compared to the previous decade; experts say the number of deaths reflected in the data almost certainly is an undercount.
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