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struggle4progress

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Tue Jul 4, 2023, 01:26 AM Jul 2023

Houston-area construction worker died in extreme heat [View all]

The Texas construction worker's death came in June amid an ongoing historic heat wave scorching the state.
July 3, 2023
Updated: July 3, 2023 1:59 p.m.

... Felipe Pascual, 46, was pouring cement at a job site when he passed out on June 16, according to the Galveston County Medical Examiner's Office. Pascual was rushed to Hermann Memorial Hospital Pearland, where he died in the emergency room from hyperthermia, said John Florence, the medical examiner who conducted Pascual's autopsy ...

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-heat-wave-deaths-18179966.php

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