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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[Read More…]