Cruz Urias Beltran collapsed because of heat-related illness while working in a cornfield near Grand Island, Neb., in 2018. He is one of at least 384 workers who died from environmental heat exposure in the U.S. in the last decade, according to an investigation by Columbia Journalism Investigations and NPR. Walker Pickering for NPR hide caption
A Republic Services worker in Houston assists with garbage collection on a summer afternoon. The company has been fined in the wake of heat-related deaths of workers but says it has implemented prevention policies. This worker was not interviewed for the story. Lucio Vasquez/Houston Public Media hide caption
Yaroslav Katkov worked at Cal Fire De Luz Station 16 located in the hills just outside of Temecula. Brian Edwards for LAist hide caption
A Republic Services worker in Houston assists with garbage collection on a summer afternoon. The company has been fined in the wake of heat-related deaths of workers but says it has implemented prevention policies. This worker was not interviewed for the story. Lucio Vasquez/Houston Public Media hide caption
The former construction site where Pedro Martinez Jr. died of heatstroke now serves as a recreational facility adjacent to a middle school in Hondo, Texas. Michael Cirlos III for NPR hide caption
Farmworker Sonia Bonce on a 90 degree day at Muranaka Farms in Moorpark, CA. Jacob Margolis/LAist hide caption