# Heat exhaustion, prostration at SMC Concrete Construction, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019077809` · 7/31/2019 · WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, prostration
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** SMC Concrete Construction, Inc.
- **Location:** 600 4th Street, SW, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 20024
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from a scaffold platform. The employee began vomiting due to heat exhaustion and was hospitalized.

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