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... #160 SUMMARY Requires employers of 11 or more field workers to provide toilets, potable drinking water, and handwashing facilities to hand laborers in the field; to provide each employee reasonable use of the above; and to inform each employee of the importance of good hygiene practices. EFFECTIVE DATES May 30, 1987 for potable drinking water July 30, 1987 for toilets and handwashing facilities SCOPE OF COVERAGE Any agricultural establishment hiring 11 or more workers for hand labor. Includes work done by hand or with hand tools during cultivation, weeding, planting, and harvesting of vegetables, nuts, fruits, seedlings, or other crops including mushrooms, and the packing of produce in the field into containers, whether performed on the ground, on moving machinery, or in a shed. Does not cover logging operations ... the care and feeding of livestock, or hand-labor operations in permanent structures (e.g. canning facilities or packing houses) . POPULATION COVERED An estimated 471,600 farm employees, about one-fourth of whom are migrant workers, on roughly 54,000 farms with 11 or more employees. From 25 to 30 percent of these workers are women; the number also includes young adults and children under 18. The greatest number of field employees covered tend or harvest fruits and nut trees (175,000) . Others tend vegetables and melons (137,000), and tobacco (98,000), other field crops including sugar cane and beets (33,000), cotton (9 ,000), and others' (10,000) . About 11,000 mushroom workers ...

... SCOPE OF COVERAGE Any agricultural establishment hiring 11 or more wo...ent figures show three of every 1,000 farm workers will suffer from heatstroke during their working lives. Farm workers suffer a risk of heat-relat...

...required to carry coverage for agricultural farm laborers. The risk of injury to farm laborers is the same in both states. ...

... in a special program the carrier has for this class of business. Under this program we have broad underwriting authority, including the discretion to apply up to 25% IRPM credits. This program has meshed well with our activities at the bank agency. The bank's depositors and loan customers include many affluent farmers. In the past few years, however, these farmers have had to cope with a statewide agricultural economy that can only be described as terrible. Bankers are trying to help their farmer clients any way they can. If a farmer can cut a $3 ,000 to $5 ,000 insurance premium 25% by dealing with us, the banker will be only too pleased. Consequently, we've been getting referrals. To encourage such referrals from bank employees, I have created a program ... get. We've never solicited Life and Health insurance in systematic fashion, however. This we are now doing with the help of the prospecting lists from the bank. In time, we hope to sell more Commercial-lines insurance through the bank agency, although, again, the size of the local market is limited and ARI Services already writes a significant share of it. At present, we are writing farm Owners/Ranch Owners insurance through the agency. In fact, about half of the applications generated at the facility have been for such business. All the Farmowners/Ranchowners business is brokered through ARI Services. We have an excellent market for this coverage in ST. Paul Insurance Companies. We are one of the few agencies in the state participating in a special program the carrier has for this ...