# Heat exhaustion, prostration at American Zinc Recycling Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017054544` · 5/18/2017 · PALMERTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **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.

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