# Heat exhaustion, prostration at Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016088048` · 8/26/2016 · COTULLA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, prostration
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc.
- **Location:** Sachs Trust CPF, COTULLA, TEXAS, 78014
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repairing a meter run and began to experience cramping. The employee was hospitalized for heat exhaustion.

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