# Heat exhaustion, prostration at Thermo Fischer Scientific
> OSHA SIR `2018099296` · 9/8/2018 · FAIR LAWN, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, prostration
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** Thermo Fischer Scientific
- **Location:** 1 Reagent Lane, FAIR LAWN, NEW JERSEY, 07410
- **NAICS:** 334516
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been filling steel kegs and moving the kegs using material handling equipment when the employee began to feel unwell, requiring hospitalization for heat exhaustion.

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