(LA AP) The coroner’s office says a Los Angeles mail carrier found dead inside her postal truck amid scorching temperatures died primarily from overheating. Temperatures reached 117 degrees (47 Celsius) during the week in July that Peggy Frank died in the Woodland Hills neighborhood. The Orange County Register reports Monday that the 63-year-old died of hyperthermia, or […]
Workplace safety investigators have launched a probe after a longtime U.S. postal carrier was found dead in her mail truck in Woodland Hills amid record-breaking heat Friday. “We can confirm that federal OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) has started an investigation,” a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Labor said in an email Tuesday. […]
WOODLAND HILLS, CA (FOX 11) – The US Postal Service is talking about the hot weather and its policies for postal workers after a long-time postal carrier was found dead in her truck during the extreme heat in Woodland Hills Friday. It didn’t matter if it was one of the hottest days of the year. Peggy […]
July 30, 2016 CHICAGO (WLS) –Almost 40 U.S. Postal Office employees at a River North facility were treated Saturday morning for heat-related illnesses, including dizziness and nausea, after temperatures inside the building reached nearly 100 degrees, a Chicago fire official said. Thirteen employees were hospitalized and another 23 workers were treated at the scene of […]
USPS found to be at fault in Missouri mailman’s heat death in 2012 INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — When a mail carrier died on the job, his wife blamed the Post Office for not taking his concerns about excessive heat seriously. The widow finally has closure two years after his death. All Kay Watzlawick has of her […]
OKLAHOMA – It’s now day five of scorching temperatures. We’ve been under a heat alert since Tuesday. So far, 29 people have been victims of the dangerous heat, five of them today alone. Friday morning emergency crews were called after a postal worker collapsed on a route he works every day.
Cited for inadequate heat stress program and communication of heat hazards to carriers ANDOVER, Mass. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the U.S. Postal Service for a serious safety violation in connection with the heat-related death of a letter carrier from the Forest Street post office in Medford. […]
Mail carriers feel the heat DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Chris Smith has been delivering the mail for eight years. He said he’s been in the hospital several times with heat exhaustion. “I’ll cool myself down take a few extra minutes in between stops, cool myself down and get prepared for the next walking split.,” he […]