Table 4.
Associations Heat Illness While Working Outdoors with Exposure, Task, and Housing.
| Number with Heat Illness | Total Sample n=101 | Those Reporting Working Outdoors in Extremely Hot Weather Conditions N = 68 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | |||||
| n | % | p-value | % | p-value | |
| Wore in the Previous 3 Days | |||||
| Wet clothes | 0.0013 | 0.0280 | |||
| No | 13 | 22.4 | 38.2 | ||
| Yes | 23 | 53.5 | 67.7 | ||
| Wet shoes | 0.0193 | NS* | |||
| No | 17 | 27.0 | 43.6 | ||
| Yes | 19 | 50.0 | 65.5 | ||
| Task in Previous 3 Days | |||||
| Harvest | 0.0244 | NS | |||
| No | 7 | 20.6 | 35.0 | ||
| Yes | 29 | 43.3 | 60.4 | ||
| Top tobacco | 0.0079 | 0.0057 | |||
| No | 22 | 28.6 | 43.1 | ||
| Yes | 14 | 58.3 | 82.3 | ||
| Barn or load tobacco | 0.0250 | NS | |||
| No | 18 | 50.0 | 62.1 | ||
| Yes | 18 | 27.7 | 46.2 | ||
| Housing | |||||
| Spent after-work time in extremely hot house | <0.0001 | 0.0464 | |||
| No | 18 | 24.3 | 42.9 | ||
| Yes | 18 | 66.7 | 69.2 | ||
NS: not significant