Incident date: 2019-06-17
NAICS industry code: 562111

On June 17, 2019, an employee was picking up residential garbage containers when he began to suffer heat-related illness; after being put in the air-conditioned cab of the garbage truck he became unresponsive. He was hospitalized, suffering from kidney failure.

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