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A roofer takes a drink of water on Aug. 20, 2019, while he and his co-workers replace shingles on a Virginia Avenue house in Kanawha City.

A worker for global civil engineering company Mott MacDonald LLC in Marshall County began experiencing cramps and trouble walking while surveying a steep slope for a Columbia Gas Transmission pipeline construction project.

An employee of Wood County-based Tri-State Roofing & Sheet Metal Company started to experience cramping while removing clay tile and installing a membrane on the roof of a building on the Capitol Complex grounds in ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä.

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“Neither snow nor rain nor heat ...†is how the U.S. Postal Service motto starts, and Jerry Shaffer exemplified the “nor heat†part of that as a letter carrier on July 5, 2018, as he delivered the mail on Second Avenue, on ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä’s West Side.

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Mike Tony covers energy and the environment. He can be reached at mtony@hdmediallc.com or 304-348-1236. Follow @Mike__Tony on X.Â