Incident date: 2022-07-14
NAICS industry code: 492210

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.

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