Heat stress affects many people in Western Australian workplaces in the summer, or in hot environments like foundries.
Heat stroke is a serious and even life-threatening condition requiring urgent treatment.
He had recently travelled from Perth and spent the day working around the camp. That night he began to vomit. The following day, working in the field with a companion in temperatures up to 41 degrees with very low humidity, he was unable to continue working and attempted to walk several hundred metres back to the party's vehicle. He took no water and never arrived at the vehicle. Some hours later a search found his body.