Antelmo Ramirez was a dad, grandpa and husband. When he died of hyperthermia while building #Tesla’s Gigafactory, they didn't tell local officials. @gusbova brings us his last hours in this important new investigation into heat deaths on the job:
https://www.texasobserver.org/tesla-texas-worker-death-heat/
#workers #Texas #Austin #news #HumanRights #labor #death #health #ElonMusk #ClimateChange
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On a 96-degree day in 2021, Antelmo Ramirez died of hyperthermia while working on #Tesla’s Gigafactory construction site just southeast of #Austin—making him one of 1,306 Texas construction workers to perish between 2011 and 2021, which is more than California and Pennsylvania combined, reports @gusbova:
https://www.texasobserver.org/tesla-texas-worker-death-heat/
#HumanRights #ElonMusk #labor #workers #news #death #ClimateChange #Texas
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