Nursery, labor contractor fined $6,300 in Marion County farmworker’s heat death
An irrigation system in a Marion County agricultural field (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
Oregon’s workplace safety agency fined a St. Paul nursery and Woodburn-based labor contractor a total of $6,300, saying both companies failed to keep employees safe from the triple-digit temperatures that led to the death of a worker laying irrigation pipe last June.
An Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigationfound Ernst Nursery and Farms did not inform workers of heat-related hazards or…
