Incident date: 2016-08-09
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee on a scaffold had been welding on a pipe structure for 8 to 8.5 hours. When he came down off of the scaffold, he exhibited signs and symptoms of dehydration, hyperglycemia, and heat exhaustion, requiring hospitalization.

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