Incident date: 2025-07-29
NAICS industry code: 541715

On July 29, 2025, at approximately 3:00 PM, the injured employee was managing hand pollination operations in a corn research nursery field. They were working outside and riding in a side-by-side with two other employees. They were overcome with heat exhaustion, lost consciousness, and fell in the break area of the nursery. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to environmental heat  outdoor
code_source: title: Heat environmental
code_nature: title: Heat stroke, syncope
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate