Mother of Gabriel Infante, 24, sues employer for $1m, saying construction workers had no protections from extreme heat

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    Infante later died in a hospital from severe heatstroke and had a recorded internal temperature of 109.8F (43.2C). The Center for Disease Control states a body temperature of 103F (39.4C) or higher is a main symptom of heatstroke.

    The poor man was fucking cooked alive and the foreman wanted to do a piss test! I wish Abbott and his funders could experience that.

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      109.8

      And that’s in the hospital, after he’d had a chance to cool down some in the ambulance, and I’m sure EMS started IV fluids as well, which would have also cooled him. I bet his temp was a good bit higher than 109.8 at its highest.