Florida workers died in the heat. Their deaths were kept from authorities [View all]
It felt like 100 degrees on the job site by late afternoon.
“Truly unbearable,” was how Jonathan Baudilio Ramirez Salazar described Florida’s weather when he spoke to his wife on the phone the night before.
He’d worked one day in the thick July heat as a temporary laborer on a Fort Myers landscaping crew for TruScapes Industries Inc.
“Don’t go to work tomorrow,” his wife told him.
“My love, I didn’t come here to rest,” the 31-year-old said from his hotel. “I came here to work — I need to get used to it.”
Ramirez was far from home, a one-bedroom his family of five shared in Guatemala. He missed the chilly breeze descending each evening in Santa Cruz Naranjo.
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