Pesticides drift on workers in Lost Hills

Tuesday 9 February 2016 10:28:00 AM

Location: Lost Hills, CA, USA

Categorie: Pesticides

Description:

On August 28th at 8am Kern County Ag Dept. office received a call detailing a pesticides drift onto workers in Lost Hills. The compliant stated that about 30 out of 300 workers were exposed to this drift causing them to feel symptoms of pesticides poisoning. The workers were working in a solar plant during the time of the incident. According to the inspector at the Ag commissioner office Eddy Greynalds, there was no arial application as some reports indicate, rather there was a ground application (AeroBlast) that took place in a pistachio orchard about 2miles away that lasted from 10pm to 5am. There is a possibility that this areoblast application at the Paramount farms orchards could of drifted over time to the solar plant. There is current efforts from the department to do some sampling to figure out where the pesticides came from, there will be three types of sampling; Swipe, foliage and clothing. The chemical that was used is Danitol which is a pest control used for worms. KEEN will follow up with Eddy to update next month.