# Multiple effects of heat and light at Republic Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018077485` · 7/24/2018 · SCHERTZ, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple effects of heat and light
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** Republic Services, Inc.
- **Location:** FM 78 / FM 3009, SCHERTZ, TEXAS, 78154
- **NAICS:** 562212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee started feeling ill during a trash pickup and threw up. The employee was hospitalized for dehydration and heat stress.

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