# Multiple effects of heat and light at United States Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2020076932` · 7/23/2020 · BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## 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:** United States Postal Service
- **Location:** 16 Thomas Patten Drive, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02205
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee who had been delivering mail was hospitalized with heat exhaustion and dehydration.

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