JEFF BARNARD, Associated Press
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Two state agencies are investigating aerial spraying operations on private timberlands in the southern Coast Range, where a member of the spraying crew says he had to regularly take shelter from herbicides sprayed from a helicopter.
The Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division said Thursday they were alerted through the Oregon Emergency Response System after truck driver Darryl Ivy quit his job on the spraying crew and went to a hospital last month complaining of blisters in his mouth and a swollen airway.
Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg notified the Roseburg Fire Department on April 26 because Ivy’s case involved hazardous chemicals, Assistant Fire Chief Steve Brewer said."
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