10/01/2026
After 25-year-old Carmen Sebastien Hernandez Mosqueda died from heat illness while working for Florida Orange Gold in 2020, the North Carolina DOL fined the company $7,000 and told them to implement a heat rule.
But two summers later, there was nothing to protect 38-year-old Carlos Vargas Moreno from permanent disability caused by the same extreme heat.
This devastating story from Prism highlights two of the most dangerous aspects of agricultural work today: and the exploitative program.
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina