Incident date: 2025-08-07
NAICS industry code: 325510

At about 10:30 a.m. on August 7, 2025, a warehouse technician working for Tnemec Company, Inc., began sweating profusely a half-hour into their shift. The employee was using a forklift to move staged pallets of paint to a shrink-wrapper, shrink-wrap the pallets, and then load the pallets onto a truck using a forklift. The employee became ill about two hours later and was hospitalized for heat-related illness.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to environmental heat  unspecified
code_source: title: Heat environmental
code_nature: title: Heat exhaustion, fatigue
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate