# Effects of heat and light, unspecified at GSM Industrial, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017054522` · 5/18/2017 · LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Effects of heat and light, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** GSM Industrial, Inc.
- **Location:** Burle Business Park, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, 17601
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On May 18, 2017, around 2:00 pm, an employee began to feel ill at the end of his shift. He had spent the morning removing a black buildup of pitch from a commercial roof and the afternoon installing new roofing material. He was hospitalized with heat-related illness.

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