These crappy cell-phone videos could save people from getting weed killer sprayed on them | Fusion

"The cell phone videos are shaky, and clearly taken in secret. Deep within Oregon’s expansive timber country, Darryl Ivy was temporarily working as part of a pesticide crew, spraying the ground with weed killers from a truck, in order to let the fir seedlings grow free of natural competition.

Overhead, the videos show, helicopters sweep in to help with the job — dumping chemicals on Ivy and his fellow workers in the process. “This is the shitty part of my job,” he says of an approaching helicopter in one of the videos, which were obtained by the Oregonian. ”

All these hazardous warning labels, and I have no protective gear.”

Ivy’s undercover videos have helped catapult the issue of chemical spraying into the forefront of Oregon politics, not just for worker’s rights issues—spraying workers with chemicals is clearly illegal according to state laws—but because many rural residents who live in lumber country are subjected to the same sprayings, with no legal protections. It’s the latest case in a long list of people reporting health complications after being sprayed by pesticides."

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