The Asuncion Valdivia Heat Illness and Fatality Prevention Act would require the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to implement a national heat stress standard. The bills were named after a 53-year-old farm worker died in July 2004, collapsing from heat stroke after working a 10-hour day picking grapes in the 100-degree sun.
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