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Her organisation, which has petitioned the government to craft national heat rules for employers, estimates that heat exposure is responsible for as many as 2,000 worker fatalities in the US each year and as many as 170,000 injuries - many of them arising from indoor work in restaurants and warehouses, as well as outside jobs.