Heatwaves are making people sick. Is Maryland’s work safety agency watching?

Alvin Scott made a habit of covering the shifts of fellow solid waste workers who were struck down by summer heat. The former Department of Public Works employee said he watched people suffer strokes, fainting, vomiting and severe dehydration — all to survive a day of tossing trash in the back of a truck. In Scott’s six years picking up waste for the Eastern Sanitation Yard on Bowleys Lane, he said he could not recall his employer providing water or time for breaks on hot days.