Heat exhaustion, prostration

Name: Heat exhaustion, prostration at US Foods, Inc.
Start: 8/29/2018

1 hospitalization · 2018088963 · 8/29/2018 · US Foods, Inc.

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: US Foods, Inc.
Location: 1051 Amboy Ave., PERTH AMBOY, NEW JERSEY, 08861
NAICS: 424410
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was delivering cases of food product from his tractor trailer when he began feeling sick and having cramps. He was hospitalized with a kidney injury and heat exhaustion. The indoor temperature at the customer location was over 100 degrees with high humidity.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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