# Heat exhaustion, prostration at United Postal Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022076144` · 7/14/2022 · LENEXA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, prostration
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** United Postal Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 14650 Santa Fe Trial Drive, LENEXA, KANSAS, 66215
- **NAICS:** 492210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A UPS employee was working as a package car driver sorting/selecting packages in the back of the vehicle and walking to/from delivery points with the packages during extreme heat. The employee was hospitalized for heat exhaustion.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*