Incident date: 2025-07-14
NAICS industry code: 115310

An employee was fighting a fire in the mountains of Colorado for approximately six hours. At the end of the shift, he was hiking back to the crew vehicles and experienced two seizures and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized. Dehydration from heat of the fire and altitude sickness may have contributed to the seizures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Forest fire or wildfire
code_source: title: Trees
code_nature: title: Heat stroke, syncope
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate