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Heat exhaustion, prostration
1 hospitalization · 2017054544 · 5/18/2017 · American Zinc Recycling Corporation
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Nature of injury
- Heat exhaustion, prostration
Cause
- Event
- Exposure to environmental heat
- Source
- Heat-environmental
Employer
- Name
- American Zinc Recycling Corporation
- Location
- 900 Delaware Avenue, PALMERTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18071
- NAICS
- 331492
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee experienced heat exhaustion during the second 8 hours of a 16 hour work shift. The employee was later hospitalized.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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