So my wife is currently working in Texas and told me a story that i wondered if it could have legal consequences. (not for her, her boss)
She's working for a junk removal company and they had a job that required some temp workers. as you can imagine the Texas summer is not very kind and she sent me a screenshot that the heat index at her location was 120F while they were working and a few temp workers passed out due to heat. She later found out that one of them, an older man, had later that day died from said heatstroke. To me as a european i would feel that her boss should be liable for making people work in this heat and thus causing this man's death.
Her boss has passed it off as “well, he was already older and had underlying health stuff” but you're not telling me this wasn't caused by his actions. so i wonder if this could be pursued, and by whom, like, his next of kin? or would she be able to notify something like OSCHA? i'm not well known in how that stuff works in the states but i feel this can't go left unpunished.