Incident date: 2019-08-05
NAICS industry code: 491110

An employee had completed approximately seven hours and forty-five minutes of mail carrying duties. He returned to the post office and went to the break area. He was observed to be ill but was responsive. The employee was hospitalized for a heat-related illness.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to environmental heat
code_source: title: Heat-environmental
code_nature: title: Effects of heat and light, unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate