Incident date: 2016-07-18
NAICS industry code: 424910

An employee had been outside in hot temperatures for approximately three hours standing on the ground watching bags of feed being loaded into a hopper bottom truck. The employee began feeling ill so he went and sat down for a while. When he stood up he seemed to be confused. He was admitted overnight for heat exhaustion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to environmental heat
code_source: title: Heat-environmental
code_nature: title: Heat exhaustion, prostration
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate