(Wine-Searcher) - Washington wineries set up a business to help vineyard workers with their health costs.

In American vineyards, grape pickers face heat stroke and rattlesnakes, not to mention sharp tools wielded as fast as possible. Many do so without green cards or health insurance.

A Washington state winemaker has launched a non-profit winery, Vital Wines, to help take care of those workers' cuts and snake bites. The rest of the state's wine industry is kicking in too.

"All of the fruit is donated," founder Ashley Trout told Wine-Searcher. "We have capsules donated, corks donated, graphics for the label art donated. A lot of labor throughout the harvest, that was donated."

All profits from Vital Wines will go to SOS Health Services of Walla Walla, a free no-questions-asked walk-in clinic.

The first Vital Wines release will be next month: 85 cases of 2015 rosé made with Sangiovese from Seven Hills Vineyard, one of Washington's best known vineyards.

"I have a feeling they were between contracts with somebody," Trout says. "They had a lot and they really wanted to donate that over."

She's working on two red blends, tentatively called The Given and the Gifted, that will be made from a hodgepodge of donated grapes. She expects to release them in the fall.

Trout's own label is called Flying Trout; she makes 900 cases of Malbec from both Washington and Argentina. Her husband is the winemaker for Duckhorn's Washington state project, Canvasback.

She has wanted to donate to worker health care because of a serious injury she suffered while rock climbing in Japan, where she spent a year as an English teacher on Shikoku, the most rural of Japan's four main islands. She fell about 40 feet and "broke my right femur, my left knee, my jaw in 14 places, and my left hand", she said.