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Heat exhaustion, prostration
1 hospitalization · 2020098879 · 9/18/2020 · Covanta Palm Beach Resource Recovery, LLC
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
- Covanta Palm Beach Resource Recovery, LLC
- Location
- 6501 N Jog Rd, WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, 33412
- NAICS
- 221118
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was servicing shredder equipment that was jammed and began to have leg cramps. The employee was hospitalized for heat exhaustion.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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