← OSHA severe injury reports
Heat syncope
1 hospitalization · 2019099307 · 9/7/2019 · USPS
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Nature of injury
- Heat syncope
Cause
- Event
- Exposure to environmental heat
- Source
- Heat-environmental
Employer
- Name
- USPS
- Location
- 101 N Main St, JOPLIN, MISSOURI, 64801
- NAICS
- 491110
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was on his route delivering mail when he lost consciousness due to the heat and fell, striking his head on a mailbox. He was hospitalized.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
- JSON-LD · Markdown