This paper provides an overview of literature focused on the impacts of climate change and severe climate events on outdoor workers in the United States. As reflected in the literature itself, this paper emphasizes the impact of increased heat on agricultural workers, and the ways in which these workers’ exclusion from crucial federal labor protections creates layered implications of exposure. To build this understanding, the paper also provides a brief history of agricultural workers in the United States, and an overview of policy changes that could help improve workers’ undue exposure to climate derived injury, illess, and death.