Denton and Carlo were employed at an appliance plant. Their job required them to preform occasional maintenance work while standing on a wire mesh twenty feet above the plan floor. Other employees had fallen though the mesh, and one of them had been killed in the fall. When their supervisor told them to preform tasks that would likely involved walking on the mesh, Denton and Carlos refuses because they were feared they might suffer bodily injury or death. Because they refuse to do the requested work, the two employee were fired from their job. Was their discharge wrongful? If so, under what federal employment law? To what federal agency or department should they turn for assistance?
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