A group of Senate Democrats is urging the Department of Labor and OSHA to move forward on a federal standard to protect workers exposed to excessive heat. In their letter, dated August 3, to Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, data is cited from the Bureau of Labor Statistics linking exposure to excessive environmental heat to 815 deaths and and 70,000 serious injuries among U.S. workers between 1992 and 2017.

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