The father of two children, Ramiro picked nectarines for Sun Valley Packing in Reedley on July 10, 2008. After working all morning in temperatures that reached 112 degrees, he complained of feeling ill & was left to rest under a tree for two hours. Eventually the foreman took Ramiro home where he lost consciousness. “Why did no one run over to help him in an emergency?” asked his grieving sister Natividad. “Maybe his life could have been saved.” Ramiro died on the way to the hospital, the fourth farm worker to perish during the summer of 2008.
