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For Peggy Frank, a Los Angeles letter carrier, any federal or California safety rule ordering her employer and all other firms to protect workers from the hazards of excess heat didn’t work.
Frank, aged 63, collapsed and died from California’s monstrously high heat while delivering the mail in Woodland Hills, a section of Los Angeles, in mid-July. The temperature in that particular neighbourhood the day she died was 41.6°C (107°F).
Frank isn’t the only worker, old, young, or in between, to succumb to the dangers of the heat that has prostrated much of the country this year or in years past. She’s just the latest one.
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