The Center for Disease Control released a report titled Solar Panel Installation Workers Exposed to Pesticides During Two Agricultural Applications on July 31. The report recounts two separate events in 2023-24 period, a total of 10 solar panel installation workers in Michigan required medical evaluation for eye, skin, and respiratory irritation after exposure to pesticides that drifted from aerial and tractor applications to nearby farmland. One worker developed new-onset asthma; all others had no long-term impacts.
Read the full report at: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7428a2.htm.
For those not tracking, it is common for specialized crop treatments, such as fungicide, to be applied by aircraft called crop dusters. Agrivoltaics put people and traditional farming practices in occasional conflict.
Source: BlueSkyd2000